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China's Uneasy Transition to an Urban Majority
Millions of rural Chinese are moving to cities, but the opportunities they're finding there are uncertain
In 2008, the world’s city-dwelling population officially passed the 50 percent mark. In 2011, so did China.
A recent article from The Guardian looks into the rapid urbanization of China, and including the fact that the country’s census earlier this year found 49.7 percent of its population living in urban areas. That’s about 666 million people.