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China Urges New Era of Mass Migration–Back to the Countryside
- stanrivers 6y agoPart of me worries that this ends likes it did before during the Cultural Revolution in China or in Stalinist Russia... people who don't know how to have a productive rural farming life end up breaking things. Meanwhile, the government keeps pushing more people who aren't qualified to try. > In 2017, after the government started redeveloping his hometown and offering grants and loans to returnees, he moved back with his wife and 9-year-old daughter. He rented 33 acres of orchard land and began raising fowl and growing potatoes and herbs for Chinese medicine. He got a $21,000 government loan, with easy terms. > “The farm is not producing a lot now, and we are working very hard,” he said. “But we are happy.” At times, he has been so short of cash he has settled debts with eggs.