Urbanization not all that good
Op-Ed Contributors Urbanization not all that good By He Bolin Updated: 2010-08-05 07:48 Urbanization has become synonymous with China's modernization. By the end of last year, the urbanization rate had already reached 46.6 percent, with 620 million people living in urban areas. But the government-driven urbanization could create a situation in which the countryside would be exploited further and the younger generation would become more dependent on their parents and elders, says He Xuefeng, director of China Rural Governance Research Center, affiliated to Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. Since a majority of the first-generation workers have returned home, about 150 million of today's rural workers - or 70 percent of the total - belong to the second generation. But some second-generation workers seek money from their parents to buy a house, get married or even to pay for their children's education back home.
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