Material World: Migration – Internal and External
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Below is the discussion so far. Feel free to add your own comments!https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/20/china-100-cities-populations-bigger-liverpool One reason is that the government is actively encouraging rural residents to urbanise. China aims to have 60% of its people living in cities by 2020, up from 56.1% currently, and the World Bank estimates a billion people – or 70% of the country’s population – will be living in cities by 2030.Thousands of government officials have campaigned across the country to convince farmers to move to newly built urban districts, turning centuries-old villages into ghost towns.Another factor? China’s centre is moving west. Guiyang, for example, topped a few lists of the best-performing Chinese city last year, as the once-sleepy capital of the country’s poorest province saw a boom in cloud computer servers and telecommunications, with e-commerce giant Alibaba a major investor.Factories are moving inland from the coastal regions in droves. Xiangyang and Hengyang, both now home to more than 1 million people, are swelling as low-end manufacturing moves to cities with cheaper labour.
Beijing unveiled “historic” plans to build a new city there in a bid to slash pollution and congestion. Plans for the Xiongan New Area, a special economic zone that authorities say will eventually cover an area nearly three times that of New YorkChina has created dozens of “new areas” in recent years as part of a massive urbanisation drive that has seen hundreds of millions of people pour into its cities. Critics say many have become ghost towns but in a recent interview Wade Shepard, the author of a book on the phenomenon, said some were now beginning to take off.“There’s really no such thing as a ghost city. It’s just a phase of development.”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/china-plans-build-new-city-nearly-three-times-the-size-of-new-york
It is ironic that China wants to be the leader of climate change. In the USA they should get ready to wear masks and ready for massive lung cancer https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/world/asia/trump-climate-change-paris-china.html?_r=0
How the USA is going to compete with that enormous capitalsit development ? Are they going to compete with Kentuky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, and Burger King without industrialziation ? Within a few years China is going to be the number one superpower, like they were in old days when they controlled the market of silk, porcelain, tea and other resources, and they had an enormous commercial sea fleet.
Where is this evidence that Karl marx was an anarchist? You can't expect to get away with a statement like that no questions asked.
Bob Andrews wrote:Where is this evidence that Karl marx was an anarchist? You can't expect to get away with a statement like that no questions asked.It was already answered in another thread. If you do not know start to do so some reading
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