China - rural - urban migration
- Created by: Julie Simpkin
- Created on: 12-05-13 17:06
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- China - rural to urban migration
- Triggers
- Foreign Investment from TNCs
- Lots of factories opened in urban areas of China
- Created jobs
- Ford - factory in Nanjing, near Shanghai
- Tehnology and transport links
- China national highway 212
- Connects rural and urban areas
- 4800km of road
- China national highway 212
- Foreign Investment from TNCs
- Push factors
- Higher employment
- Industrialisation - since 1970s
- Large number of manufacturing jobs created by foreign companies
- Higher wages- three times higher than rural areas
- Higher standard of living
- Higher employment
- Push factors
- High unemployment
- Machinery made agriculture more efficient
- Fewer workers needed
- Poverty
- 2004 - 26.1 million people in rural areas in absolute poverty
- Lower standard of living
- Funded by local taxes
- Rurak areas lack the money to improve services
- Funded by local taxes
- High unemployment
- Triggers
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