Why is it that people who live in China's cities can make more money than people who live in it's countryside?
Does anybody know? I'm from the United States and I don't know very much about communism. Thank you.
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It's a worldwide phenomenon, not confined to any country or political system. Here in NZ the lowest paid jobs are in rural areas. In the country, workers are more isolated, less unionised and less well-educated. Professional people often have ties in the university cities where they graduated and compete for jobs there. Rural areas get what's left. High technology jobs which pay well are in cities for obvious reasons. Inbreeding is more common in rural areas; city dwellers are part of a large gene pool. The same thing happens in the States; compare San Francisco or Boston with Mississippi or Kansas.
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China is an epic-sized commune.....there is no comapriosn betwen PRC and USA ....in that every person is tested early and educated according to their scores, as well as their families ability to provide some assistance in the case of a well placed-test score ...when the earthquakes and the only buildings that collapse are the schools...that is a blatant indication of where the emphasis is on the education of those rural people...(it ain't) ....generally, those in the countryside are dropping out in primary school....life has little responsibility or varitety, if any at all really....farming is still mostly doen 'by-hand', what constitues a 'tractor' in PRC looks very similar to the car owned by 'Jed Clampett' and operated by 'Jethro', the 'vehicle' is a luxury to most little villages, although everywhere veggies are grown, labor is by shovel, hoe, rake, sickle, scythe, etc....and stacked upon carts, mostly pulled by hand, and pushed by helpers.....men, women, children all learn to farm, live on dirt floor old multi-family dwellings, right next to their section of land they are 'allowed' to farm ....then the produce is carted to the surrounding larger cities for immediate sale at open-street markets, where live ducks, chickens, pigeons, as well as, raw pork is butchered in the open sunshine, flies and all, along with the many blankets on the ground where the veggies are displayed for sale ....if a child tests well, and somehow goes to a university, their life still is not mirrored to the US at all and likely earn equal to US minimum wage at best....even for professors ....if somehow a family rises to economic independence, it is because they are already high-born, are 'party members' and have many high-level 'party' connections that send them contract business, information and also disallow competition, thusly 'insuring' the over-night' millionaires rising in PRC today....it is not some phenomena, juz plain ol' hard working good ol boy system in it's blatant glory (that is fact, not fiction) ....a small group in absolute control over an enormous workforce of carefully controlled peasants ...those peasants are cared-for by minimal means doled out through various levels of prefecture and local managers ...chemicals are used to grow perfect high yield veggies ....cigarettes are encouraged at every opportunity and made avaialble cheaply, to the peasants ....health care is only for the sick and weak, not strong healthy people ....long-term health care is non-existent ....population control is tantamount, therefore life expectancy, in real terms, is 60 for men, who experience the greatest exposure to the most toxins....since women smoke less, longer for those who avoid catching the 'cancer' .....but many many women also work in male-dominated jobs too, earning 'higher, more consistent wages' and experiencing the same exposures
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It has nothing to do with the government. Look at America, where are the highest paying jobs? In the cities, that's why people work in the cities! Farmers are always the lowest paid people, that is why the American government has farm subsidies for the big corporate farms. The corporate farms make big money now, but the workers get very little money. That is why illegal Mexicans work on farms.
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China's economy works more like capitalism nowadays. The communist economy system died and utterly failed in the mid 1900s. So basicly people in the countryside are not near areas that bring in a lot of moeny, so they don't have a lot of money either. Its kind of like how the US urban centers are where the wealth lies. Also, countryside people rarely get involved in international/national related buisnesses, which is where big bucks can be made. They usually are local farmers who sell to other locals or nearby cities.
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