As urban migration continues apace, these figures are only expected to rise in the short term.
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Hukou reform, they believe, could boost rural-urban migration and with it the consumer spending China needs.
Urban migration is also prompting some local governments to provide better services to newcomers, as well as extending city services into satellite towns.
In addition, the projects have also created employment opportunities for other community members, an aspect which has contributed towards rural development and combating rural-to-urban migration.
Two years later, while doing an urban migration study there, a reporter announced over a loudspeaker that he'd pay cash to anyone with information for a story about the Rockefeller in their midst.
In 2010, 34% of rural migrant workers left their factory jobs to move back home, according to the most recent data available from the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia project at Australian National University.
However, it also suggests that such convergence can be expected to take place over many decades and, in the short run, enhanced rural-urban migration might even widen the income divide between the countryside and cities.
The situation has been exacerbated by increasing rates of rural to urban migration which have, on the one hand, deprived the rural areas of agricultural labour and, on the other, increased the demand on the limited social services in urban areas.
Recent conflicts and rural to urban migration that reduced the population of the region and changes in ways of life have caused a sharp decrease in the number of performers, resulting in the loss of many archaic styles and genres of solo singing.
Stimulating commercial agriculture and reversing the tide of migration to urban areas is essential.
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The report highlights in particular the increasing phenomenon of migration from rural to urban areas, often as a result of drought or flooding in the countryside.
It is thought the outbreak was directly linked to Sierra Leone's past conflict, which caused a massive migration from rural to urban areas, resulting in overpopulation and poor sanitation.
The government plans to continue limiting the growth rate of the largest urban areas, but to allow more legal migration from the countryside.
Historically most urban growth has been due to natural increase, not migration.
Evidence suggests that migration reform might eventually bring about the convergence of rural income levels with those of urban levels.
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