China‘s urban dwellers nearly equal number of country folk — Shanghai Daily
Posted by SWG on 16/6/09 • Categorized as News
CHINA’S increasing urbanization means that almost as many people now live in the nation’s cities as those who live in the countryside.
Urban population in the country surged to 607 million at the end of last year, putting 45.7 percent of the entire population in the cities, a social researcher reported yesterday.
The country’s city dwellers increased by 148 million since 2000 and are almost equal to the rural population in the world’s most populous nation, which is home to 1.3 billion people, according to Shan Jingjing of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
