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September 8th 2011

Stowe Boyd: Waidi Ren and Hukuo: The Two-Tiered Society in China

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stoweboyd:

Waidi ren, or ‘outsiders’, are the rural unskilled who migrate to China’s booming cities illegally, and are forming a permanent underclass:

Andrew Jacobs, China Takes Aim at Rural Influx

According to the Beijing Bureau of Statistics, more than one-third of the capital’s 19.6 million…

Posted at 7:21am and tagged with: china, civil unrest, economics, hukuo, policy, rural migration, underclass, urbanization, waidi ren, future unrest,.