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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Faced with dwindling opportunities, from rural hometowns to major cities, some migrant workers sleep in the streets as they roll the dice on where the sluggish economic recovery will create the most jobs.
Shanghai is China’s most densely packed urban metropolis, but the exodus of jobseekers from other regions, an inability to convince couples to have children, an ageing population and zero-Covid measures took a toll last year.
Abducted as a toddler 25 years ago and adopted by a billionaire family, a 27-year-old Chinese man has been returned to his birth parents – who turned out to be multimillionaires.