G09: Rise of Modern China: Internal Migration

Yale insights article

OECD document: Introductory sections cover poilcies in the 80s/90s

To manage its land base and rapid urban expansion, the Chinese government in the early 1980s launched sweeping reforms of the structure of institutions that govern land and housing allocation.

Nice summary of pros/cons from World Bank

BBC:Migration of impoverished rural peasants has been the driving force behind the China's economic transformation over the last few decades.

In 2012 the Chinese government announced that for the first time in history, more people lived in its cities than in the countryside.