摘要
Over the past 20 years,210 million Chinese farmers and rural dwellers have abandoned the countryside in search of a better life in China’s burgeon- ing cities.By comparison,the combined labor force of the United States
Over the past 20 years, 210 million Chinese farmers and rural dwellers have abandoned the countryside in search of a better life in China's burgeoning cities. By comparison, the combined labor force of the United States and Europe is a mere 300 million. Writing in The New York Times, Ted C. Fishman a China commentator and contributing editor to Harper's Magazine, called it, without exaggeration, the "largest human migration in history."