People Flocking to China's Cities

摘要

Affecting us all, China's economic growth is reallocating income around the world-cheaper imports for consumers and more competition for local manufacturing, leading to job loss, higher commodity prices, and greater income for commodity exporters. How can we learn more about the second-largest economy in the world? One first step on that fascinating knowledge journey of 1000 li is to read Tom Miller's balanced, insightful, and detailed China's Urban Billion. Journalist Miller (China Economic Quarterly) tells the story of the movement of 200 million rural Chinese to the cities, which has fed the extraordinary Chinese growth. He focuses on the past impacts of mass migration and an analysis of policy choices and their likely effects on future migration, Chinese city growth, and Chinese well-being.