China wants young people working in the countryside

Rural China is home to many small farms and traditional industries, but productivity is falling. There are not enough new industries to provide economic growth. Young people continue to leave rural areas for big cities. The situation is bad enough that Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on talented workers from the cities to move to the countryside. That is an unusual idea for a country where the growth of cities has been an important step toward prosperity.

The ruling Communist Party appears to have several aims in calling for a return to rural areas. The party wants to avoid social unrest in highly populated areas. It also wants to increase spending all over the country and to control the fast growth in big cities. Party leaders also want to increase the power of rural areas, where an estimated 577 million people live.

Ma Xiaohe is an advisor at the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planning agency. He spoke to the Reuters news agency.

Ma noted that the Chinese president launched a program of “rural rejuvenation” last October. Xi promised projects to improve roads and other infrastructure in the countryside. He also promised to develop industries, such as farming and tourism, and bring investments to rural areas.

Since October, local governments have announced measures to bring business owners, skilled workers, college graduates and “modern professional farmers” to rural areas.

The central province of Henan, for example, plans to offer a total of $890 million dollars this year to Chinese who return to rural areas to start businesses. Henan wants 200,000 such “rural entrepreneurs” in 2018.

Aliqismet BADALOV,
“Khalq qazeti”


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