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China�s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities -- (link)

Posted by Strongbad (aka Rambler14) Jun 25 '13, 04:51

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China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years (www.nytimes.com)

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Thanks for sharing this - I find this movement extremely interesting. -- nm - Jelly Jun 25, 05:08 11
- Same here. I always think of Asimov when I read about stuff like this. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 25, 05:28 10
  - How do you mean? (I've never read any Asimov) -- nm - Roger More Jun 25, 05:51 9
    - His future covers topics like this. - Strongbad Jun 25, 06:21 7
      - Ah, thanks. (while I haven't read him, I always thought of Asimov as someone who wrote about human nature, intelligence, consciousness, etc and - Roger More Jun 25, 06:30 6
        
        It was more urbanization/density and their effects on human nature, than "evils of big government" -- nm - Strongbad Jun 25, 06:49 3
        
        (the book, not the article) -- nm - Strongbad Jun 25, 07:00
        
        Ihave a feeling they're putting. the cart in front of the horse here - znufrii Jun 25, 06:54 1
        
        (the article, not the book) -- nm - znufrii Jun 25, 07:03
        
        his ideas are better than his writing, imo...nm - x Jun 25, 06:35 1
        
        he's the one who came up with the idea of artificial satellites. there's an episode of Prophets of Science about him. RM is probably thinking about - zork Jun 25, 07:08
    - please do - DaneDukeNuuk Jun 25, 06:20

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