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A 1978 survey of housing conditions in 192 cities found that their combined population had increased by 83 percent between 1949 and 1978, but housing floor space had only grown by 46.7 percent. [1] In 1978 there were only 3.6 square meters of living space per inhabitant in these cities, a reduction of 0.9 square meters since 1949. [1]
Rural society in the People's Republic of China encompasses less than half of China's population (roughly 45%) and has a varied range of standard of living and means of living. Life in rural China differs from that of urban China. In southern and coastal China, rural areas are developing and, in some cases, statistically approaching urban ...
Homelessness in China is a social issue. In 2011, there were approximately 2.41 million homeless adults and 179,000 homeless children living in the country, 0.18% of the country population. [29] However, owing to government policies and housing schemes, China has managed, to some extent, to tackle the problem.
Share of population in extreme poverty over time. In China, poverty mainly refers to rural poverty.Decades of economic development has reduced urban extreme poverty. [1] [2] [3] According to the World Bank, more than 850 million Chinese people have been lifted out of extreme poverty; China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015, as measured by the percentage of ...
Chinese director Huo Meng’s “Living the Land,” a deeply personal exploration of China’s rapidly evolving rural landscape in the early 1990s, is world premiering in competition at the ...
China’s economic boom has significantly expanded its middle class, now one of the largest and most influential globally. The middle class is typically defined as earning $10 to $50 per day , or ...
"In China's largest cities, for instance, it is often quoted that at least one out of every five persons is a migrant." [92] China's government influences the pattern of urbanization through the Hukou permanent residence registration system, land-sale policies, infrastructure investment and the incentives offered to local government officials ...
In the first six months of 2022, searches for "digital nomad"on Xiaohongshu, China's Instagram-like platform, surged by 650%, with posts on how to become one viewed more than 22 million times.