Chinese Urbanization ชุมชนเมืองของจีน

The Chinese economic boom has not only resulted in a changed political landscape, but the actual landscape of China has changed too. Young people are moving away from the countryside as soon as they can find a job, near or far, in a city, leaving their elderly parents to work the soil of the farms. The cities to which they move grow bigger by the second, resulting in extreme pollution.

A Chinese national flag is seen in front of a residential site in downtown Shanghai. Aly Song/REUTERS