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Making sense of China’s economy

Dollar & Sense: The Brookings Trade Podcast

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The Importance of Rural Urban Migration

Tao: The agricultural reform frees up labor, a lot of that most of the cities. If you didn't have a private sector developing and an export oriented sector developing, there wouldn't have been jobs for them. Since we're even today, we have 200 million plus workers called migrant workers, they're rural, urban migrants. But many of them have been working and living in cities for a long time but they still do not have the same who-co, the same identity therefore not the same kind of entitlement. So if they can reform that, enable people to move with their whole family, that's going to help release some of the more labor still in the country.

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