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Cranes and excavators are back at work after they were halted in June 2020 following local opposition and academic criticism, social media in China report. Ostensibly, the goal is to modernise rural life by merging a fifth of 70,000 villages, forcing people into new neighbourhoods on the outskirts of medium-sized cities. Anyone who fails to comply can expect violence.
As China faces numerous questions over its economic viability in the long term, some are advocating for a removal of barriers to rural land trading to jolt growth back to previous heights.
Officials in Guangdong, Shandong, Anhui and Liaoning convene meetings to find ways to boost investment and overhaul technology.
Beijing is promoting the aircraft as an exclusively Chinese development.
Subsidised rural homes for elderly Chinese residents, rather than traditional nursing homes, ‘could solve 80 to 90 per cent of the problems in rural elder care’, but the infirmed are still worrisome outliers.