That number has been falling since 2012 and was around 22% as of 2023 (ignoring the hand-wavy conflation of the entire agriculture sector and stereotypical rura

That number has been falling since 2012 and was around 22% as of 2023 (ignoring the hand-wavy conflation of the entire agriculture sector and stereotypical rural farmers) https://tradingeconomics.com/china/employment-in-agriculture-percent-of-total-employment-wb-data.html https://tradingeconomics.com/china/employment-in-agriculture... You could just as easily massage statistics to call the US a nation of gig workers or something, but neither is productive or informative.