Employment and Migration: A Chinese Rural Perspective

Robert Ash
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Chapter 3 in Resurgent China, 2009, pp 72-102 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The reforms of the last 25 years have made China an increasingly urbanised society, and the process of urbanisation will accelerate in the coming years. For the time being, however, China remains a predominantly rural society. Some 745 million people — 57 percent of the total population — are officially registered as rural.1 Two-thirds of total employment takes place in the countryside,2 and agriculture alone still accounts for almost 45 percent of all jobs.3 These are formidable numbers. No assessment of China’s future economic and social development can fail to take close account of the challenges posed by this “rural bias” and its implications for government economic and social policies.

Keywords: Coastal Province; Rural Sector; Rural Labor; Chief Editor; Rural Income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230234253_3

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