The New York Times - MARCH 17, 2014
BEIJING
— China has announced a sweeping plan to manage the flow of rural
residents into cities, promising to promote urbanization but also to
solve some of the drastic side effects of this great uprooting.
The plan — the country’s first attempt at broadly coordinating one of the greatest migrations in history
— foresees 100 million more people moving to China’s cities by 2020,
while providing better access to schools and hospitals for 100 million
former farmers already living in cities but currently denied many basic
services. Underpinning these projections would be government spending to
build roads, railways, hospitals, schools and housing.
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