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To: TobagoJack who wrote (101137)6/15/2013 8:50:40 PM
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>>china must build 50 singapores w/i 15 years<<

Team USA is just a rounding error vs. China population...

China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities

Articles in this series look at how China's government-driven effort to push the population to towns and cities is reshaping a nation that for millenniums has been defined by its rural life.

nytimes.com

BEIJING — China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come.

The government, often by fiat, is replacing small rural homes with high-rises, paving over vast swaths of farmland and drastically altering the lives of rural dwellers. So large is the scale that the number of brand-new Chinese city dwellers will approach the total urban population of the United States — in a country already bursting with megacities.