| In most countries other than China, people can move to anywhere in the country as they want to. The reason some spots become cities is there are more business activites there, which makes people eaiser to find work so they can live. They do not necessarily like urban atmosphere, they live there because they need some work to do and cities offer more. China is little bit different. Cities in China are significantly wealthier than rural area. Farmers flee to cities not because they like the urban life style, but they are too poor to live a basic life. They believe whatever work they can find in cities is better than staying in their rural hometown. If this situation remains unchanged, Chinese moving to smaller cities will not happen. Chinese cities' prosperity has not much to do with average Chinese citizen's standard of living because the funding of mordenising cities comes from national resources. This means people in the entire China are taxed to make a fews cities beautiful. Of course that can be done and of course people outside cities are poor and they want to come to cities. |