People & Power - China Moving - 14 Nov 07

People & Power speaks to the few young and elderly villagers left behind in China's impoverished countryside after their children and parents leave to find work in the big cities.

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[gbm322]

Urbanization and industrialization must go ahead at full speed. china must do 100 years in 20!

[msgg81]

A good report.

10/10.

Migration and evolution of economics cannot be avoided.

[Phead128]

heavy expense of the city life will probably drive business back into the interior as the interior gets more competitive as heavy industry moves into cheaper land to take advantage of cheaper labor.

[blipbaii]

theirs a lot of stuff you dont know, its easier to said than done, why not you grow up in a farm family? and see how hard it is? just because you read some books about investing and all those stuff, doesnt mean that you can start preaching and know what some people are going through..........

[shawtony]

I think it's very good report.

It's very true in China country.

[divinejudge1]

"Keeping up with the Jones'" The Chinese are slowly all starting to join the rat race. Little do they know that if one wins a rat race they'll still be a rat.

It is sad to see a nation that had a cultural revolution with the goal to improve the lives of the common folk get so far off on that goal.

I see that as the mission is to build good societies NOT communists governments to solve the issue of intolerable condition for all our people.

[annarboriter]

The economic development in China is cutthroat and brutal and yet the majority of Chinese are still mainly peasants who think like peasants. They are so easily taken advantage of and exploited by the inherent corruption of the whole system. I see a series ticking bombs that will tear this country apart and little being done to rectify the problems as they get worse.

[alt173]

Excellent report. What will happen in 50 years when few people are used to living in the country side? no one will want to live there at all!