The post-pandemic trend of the young and mobile increasingly moving out of China’s megacities is shaping the direction of the country’s urbanisation and regional development.
For the first time in decades, the share of China’s workforce employed in raw materials industries has gone up – a consequence of a weak job market and a return of rural migrants to their homes.
Changing the residential status of urban migrants in China could free up incomes for consumption through access to better public services – but it remains an open question whether such a change is feasible.
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