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Culture shock (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago

So more rural Chinese than total Americans.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 5 months ago

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