Millions of rural Chinese have migrated to cities for better opportunities, abandoning aging populations and hollowed-out communities. In 1980, 19% of China’s population lived in urban areas.

Chinese director Huo Meng ‘s “ Living the Land,” a deeply personal exploration of China’s rapidly evolving rural landscape in the early 1990s, is world premiering in competition at the ...

Alarmed by the growing income gap between urban and rural Chinese, government officials call for urgent reform to ease the economic burden on the estimated 800 million people living in the nation ...

China celebrates the Lunar New Year on Saturday, and as people travel home to celebrate the holiday, experts are bracing themselves for a COVID-19 outbreak in rural areas.

Internal migration and the provision of social benefits in China are restricted by the institutional policy, commonly called hukou. Hukou status is mainly determined by place of origin. It creates a ...