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Culture shock (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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

The cities are massive and really densely populated. Shenzhen and Guangzhou are about 90 minutes apart by car if memory serves and account for about 35M people. Hong Kong is an hour south of Shenzhen by train and that's another ~8M.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

So more rural Chinese than total Americans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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