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The High Cost of Migration in China

Over the last three decades, more than 260 million rural residents of China have moved to the cities in one of the largest migrations in human history. Most have moved to cities because they cannot afford not to. For all of the economic growth in China, rural China is still a place of poverty. Almost half of rural residents live on less than $2 a day. Rural Chinese have less schooling, health care and income. They die, on average, more than 12 years earlier than their big city counterparts. [...]