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Volume 16, Issue 1
1 January 1989
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Research Article| January 01 1989

The Transformation of the Agricultural Population and the Urbanisation Process in China

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Zhang Wenxian
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6712
Print ISSN: 0306-8293
© MCB UP Limited
1989
International Journal of Social Economics (1989) 16 (1): 40–51.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000000437

Nine causes for the occurrence of surplus agricultural labour with the modernisation of agriculture have been identified. Several solutions to this problem are presented. Urbanisation of the agricultural population in a way suited to China′s characteristics is necessary,important and possible.

Keywords: Agriculture, China, Rural areas
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