Manual labor...

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South China....




village road....




village players...




the village....




river plain...

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I hear stories about how the Chinese are trying to end village life by relocating people to new cities.

True?

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Not really, originally they were trying to limit village to city migration.
You had to have official permission to live in a city, one of the reasons factories have to provide dorms for their workers. It is, by definition, temporary housing for village labor. Those that prefer to stay in a city, can, but they need to afford to. To buy an apartment still requires an entire family to chip in.
It also depends on your definition of a city, in eastern or central china a county seat may have 10 mil inhabitants. Village housing is quite dense, it would look like small towns over here....