And what will they do with them once they get there?
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/china-to-re...l+Ideas%29
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/china-to-re...l+Ideas%29
Quote:A massive urban development program, in which the Chinese government aims to relocate 250 million peasant farmers to burgeoning urban centers, is set to begin in earnest this fall. "The government, often by fiat, is replacing small rural homes with high-rises, paving over vast swaths of farmland and drastically altering the lives of rural dwellers. So large is the scale that the number of brand-new Chinese city dwellers will approach the total urban population of the United States — in a country already bursting with megacities." While consistant with the government's history of social engineering policies, the urbanization plan reverses previous emphasis on farmers' land rights.