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Questions and Answers
What was the significance of China reaching 50% urbanisation in 2011 for the Communist Party?
What was the significance of China reaching 50% urbanisation in 2011 for the Communist Party?
The party's fate rested on the stability of cities and contentedness of their middle-class residents.
How has China's economic and political focus changed since Deng Xiaoping's reforms?
How has China's economic and political focus changed since Deng Xiaoping's reforms?
It has become overwhelmingly urban.
By how much has China's urban population grown since Deng Xiaoping's reforms, in terms of the equivalent population of the US and UK combined?
By how much has China's urban population grown since Deng Xiaoping's reforms, in terms of the equivalent population of the US and UK combined?
More than 500m, the equivalent of all the people in the United States plus three Britains.
