How Badly Off Are China’s Farmers?

Jonathan Anderson

 
Editorial note:

In this article, Mr. Anderson points out that despite the intensifying complaints from farmers in past decades with regard to their stagnating incomes, high taxes, the rising rural-urban earnings gap and other social problems caused by the large flow of rural migrants to the cities, a basic fact is that China has made great efforts to solve the issues concerning agriculture, the countryside and farmers. In comparison with other low-income countries, the overall situation of farmers has been improving since the country opened up to the outside world. Meanwhile, far from being a source of instability, rural migration to the cities is a dynamic source of new income and economic growth. Finally, the writer comments that China does not have the slum areas commonly seen in some other developing countries, and he provides explanations for this phenomenon.

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