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Monday, 11 November 2013

Farmers move from mountains to townhomes in China urbanization drive, but where are the jobs?

China — After her husband started making good money as an electrician here in central China, Cao Qin ended years of working as a migrant laborer hundreds of kilometers (miles) away and came back home to better care for their school-age boy.


But Cao, 30, didn’t return to the family’s rugged adobe home in the hills. Instead, they all moved into a new third-floor apartment in this planned community of Qiyan that has been going up in a valley in southern Shaanxi province over the past couple of years as a new home for villagers scattered throughout nearby mountains.


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The Associated Press via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/nd9C7RfT3jc/

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