Victims of the convulsions now transforming China
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1589103,00.html
Now that Mammon has replaced Mao, corruption is fuelling the rural
inequality opened up by migration to the cities
Martin Jacques
Tuesday October 11, 2005
The Guardian
The case of Lu Banglie, who was beaten up by a mob near Taishi in
southern China - as reported in yesterday's Guardian - is not unusual.
There has been a rapidly growing number of conflicts between villagers
and the authorities, often over the sale of agricultural land on the
edge of a town or village to a developer. These conflicts are a graphic
illustration of the tensions involved in China's transformation. The
essence of industrialisation is the shift from the countryside to the
towns involving, in China's case in particular, a huge migration to the
urban centres. The cities and towns are growing apace and gobbling up
the adjoining land in a ceaseless process of expansion.
Martin Jacques
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