Urbanization: When Farmers Lose Their Land

Lou Peimin

Editorial note:

In China, the acceleration of urbanization and the reduction of the peasantry are feasible ways in which to solve the problem of rural poverty. At the same time they have resulted in countless peasants losing the land upon which they depended for survival. Although we cannot say that urbanization is a new “land division movement”, it has certainly become a massive influence upon the lives of peasants. So what kinds of lives do peasants live after losing their land? The following article will answer this question by means of an on-the-spot survey.

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