Large numbers of agricultural labor moved from the countryside to cities after the economic reforms in China. Migration …

The paradoxes of rural-urban inequality in contemporary China / Martin King Whyte -- Small-town China : a historical … perspective on rural-urban relations / Hanchao Lu -- Rural migrant workers and China's differential citizenship : a comparative … institutional analysis / Wu Jieh-min -- How large is China's urban-rural income gap? / Terry Sicular ... [et al.] -- Reestimating …

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …