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[-] khannie@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

I mean, it’s still a largely rural country

Not so. Wikipedia has a decent article but here's the crux of it:

By the end of 2023, China had an urbanization rate of 66.2% and is expected to reach 75-80% by 2035

[-] wanderer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

That still means there are about 500 million people living in rural areas of China.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

So more rural Chinese than total Americans.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

More than a third of the country by population, especially when that population is in the billions, is still pretty large. Not majority rural obviously, but still a large percentage.

But I was speaking geographically. Isn't half the country almost completely empty? Or am I confusing something I read somewhere?

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah Western China is basically empty. It's very mountainous and the land is not fertile.

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