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06.12.17China Drive to Relocate Millions of Rural Poor Runs into Trouble
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Villagers return home after struggling with lack of jobs in urban apartments
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10.25.16Resettling China’s 'Ecological Migrants'
New York Times
These are the people the government has relocated from lands distressed by climate change, industrialization, and poor policies to hastily built villages
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04.22.16
Drinking the Northwest Wind
Like so many of Mao’s pronouncements, it sounded simple. “The South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little water and bringing it up might do the trick.” And thus, in 1952, the foundation was laid for what...
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06.25.15China Aims to Move Beijing Government Out of City’s Crowded Core
New York Times
Officials finalize plans to move Beijing’s municipal government, including tens of thousands of civil servants to Tongzhou.
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07.16.13Pitfalls Abound in China’s Push From Farm to City
New York Times
Li Yongping is directing one of the largest peacetime population transfers in history: the removal of 2.4 million farmers from mountain areas in the central Chinese province of Shaanxi to low-lying towns, many built from scratch on other farmers’...