The Guardian view in Chinese rural areas: Urban people think about escaping to the country Editorial

PEOPLE went empty buildings: This is the truth of the daily life in the countryside. The best -selling account China in one village. It was a bleak picture of its original city – its vitality, receding with the depletion of the forces of modern life from the youth, the pollution of its waters, and took advantage of its resources until the local school turned into a pig. Not only a quarter of its sales reflected a million sales, but also to know the story. With China’s urban prosperity with the role of the Communist Party to the market, 350 million villagers immigrated to the cities, leaving behind increasingly deserted settlements.

Now bejing enhances “rural activation”. Government media manages a fixed stream of articles that praise the city’s residents who have returned to their original cities to create cafes or operate home subscriptions. The expansion of the transportation infrastructure, telecommunications and communications allowed the countryside of the countryside to expand their horizons. First came “Tobu Village”As at least 10 families used the e -commerce platform in Alibaba. Recently, farmers They took to the live broadcast Selling fruits or flowers directly to urban areas.

Payment factors are strongly strong. The urban people who are tired of the city’s life’s pressure seeks to take it easier in the countrysideJust as the Hibays in the West rejected the physical dreams of their parents in the 1960s. Some are not ready to work around the clock; Others see increasingly tight rewards to do so. Some turn to rural entrepreneurship because of High unemployment rate. And swelling among the citizens of work who fueled the years of China’s boom became a wave of retirees.

The migratory transfers were decisive to raise rural income. but Hoko Or family registration system, linking the rights of interest and services in your mother city, and forcing parents working to leave their children with grandparents – breaking families and Detach the horizons of many in the next generation. Now it prevents them from Cities.

China announced in 2020 it was Eliminate extreme povertyWhich was completely rural. This reflects Note improvements in the lives of tens of millions Through official programs – even if the means often used are raw, such as forced transport, and the goal of the title has been reached because it was measured according to very specific criteria.

But new opportunities should not be exaggerated. The remote areas are unlikely that they are close to the main roads or close to the wealthy urban centers. Many policies focus on towns – small with Chinese standards, not by Western policies – instead of villages. The residents of the city who are disturbed to seek a rustic poet, as many in the West, may find that they cannot do it or that the grandmother explodes.

In fact, expectations indicate that the rural workforce will continue to contract until 2035, with the urban workforce It is expected to grow. Increasingly, the government’s vision is the development of high -tech industries, while the countryside continues to provide cheap work for cities when needed and forces for the Popular Liberation Army. China needs better protection and social services – bypass it Hoko Reforms to cancel the system, and invest in education in villages as well as cities that include their advanced institutions. Otherwise, most of them will continue to see the countryside as a place to leave.