Leaving the Land Moving 250 Million Into Cities

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The New York Times

Leaving the Land

China's Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities 

By IAN JOHNSON

June 15, 2013


BEIJING — 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 — a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come.

The government, often by fiat, is replacing small rural homes with high-rises, paving over vast swaths of farmland and drastically altering the lives of rural dwellers. So large is the scale that the number of brand-new Chinese city dwellers will approach the total urban population of the United States — in a country already bursting with megacities.

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Does this sound like the UN and Article 21's plan for the US?
It can't happen can it?