A 12-year plan to move hundreds of millions of rural residents into cities is intended to spur economic growth, but could have unintended consequences, skeptics warn.
“For old people like us, there’s nothing to do anymore. Up in the mountains we worked all the time. We had pigs and chickens. Here we just sit around and people play mah-jongg.” — He Shifang, a 45-year-old farmer who was relocated in a sweeping urbanization program in China"