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> Most of Chinese population lives in rural China Not any more for at least a few decades. In 2021 Census there were only 36.11% population living in rural Ch

> Most of Chinese population lives in rural China Not any more for at least a few decades. In 2021 Census there were only 36.11% population living in rural China. Edit: 2021, not 2011.

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lastofthemojito 3y ago
The 2021 China Census news release says: > There were 901.99 million persons living in urban areas, accounting for 63.89 percent; 509.79 million persons living in rural areas, accounting for 36.11 percent. Interesting that the percentages for urban and rural sum exactly to 100%. Is there no concept of "suburban" in China? No in-between city and countryside? Honest question from someone who has never been to China.
- hnthrowaway0315 3y ago
  Yes there is the concept of suburban -- 郊区 in Chinese. I'm not sure whether it counts for urban or rural in the statiatics though.
ajmurmann 3y ago
I looked this up again in the book: "In particular, according to hukou status, only about 36 percent of China’s overall population is urban and fully 64 percent is rural (some 800 to 900 million people). Owing to uneven birthrates between the cities and the countryside (until recently urban families could have only one child, while rural families often had two or three), China’s children are even more concentrated in rural areas. More than 70 percent of China’s children have rural hukou status today. This means that China’s future workforce is predominantly growing up in rural villages, where educational outcomes are still lagging far behind." Rozelle, Scott; Hell, Natalie. Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise (pp. 8-9). So the difference here might come from where the population lives vs. their houku status. As I understand it from the book, the houku status dictates where your child is allowed to go to school. So while 36.11% might now "live" in a urban area, many of the children of those urban residents likely will have to live with grandparents in the rural hometown. Unfortunately, this is one of the sections where I cannot quickly find a reference to the source in the book. Maybe if I read the whole chapter again, but I cannot do that right nwo.

> Most of Chinese population lives in rural China Not any more for at least a few decades. In 2021 Census there were only 36.11% population living in rural China. Edit: 2021, not 2011.

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lastofthemojito 3y ago

The 2021 China Census news release says: > There were 901.99 million persons living in urban areas, accounting for 63.89 percent; 509.79 million persons living in rural areas, accounting for 36.11 percent. Interesting that the percentages for urban and rural sum exactly to 100%. Is there no concept of "suburban" in China? No in-between city and countryside? Honest question from someone who has never been to China.

hnthrowaway0315 3y ago
Yes there is the concept of suburban -- 郊区 in Chinese. I'm not sure whether it counts for urban or rural in the statiatics though.

ajmurmann 3y ago

I looked this up again in the book: "In particular, according to hukou status, only about 36 percent of China’s overall population is urban and fully 64 percent is rural (some 800 to 900 million people). Owing to uneven birthrates between the cities and the countryside (until recently urban families could have only one child, while rural families often had two or three), China’s children are even more concentrated in rural areas. More than 70 percent of China’s children have rural hukou status today. This means that China’s future workforce is predominantly growing up in rural villages, where educational outcomes are still lagging far behind." Rozelle, Scott; Hell, Natalie. Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise (pp. 8-9). So the difference here might come from where the population lives vs. their houku status. As I understand it from the book, the houku status dictates where your child is allowed to go to school. So while 36.11% might now "live" in a urban area, many of the children of those urban residents likely will have to live with grandparents in the rural hometown. Unfortunately, this is one of the sections where I cannot quickly find a reference to the source in the book. Maybe if I read the whole chapter again, but I cannot do that right nwo.