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Urban Areas Of Chin A Large Portion Of A Population

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In many areas of the world, the increase of population always caused an issue with adequate housing. While some countries do better than others at controlling the situation, there is always a percentage of people that live in the slums. About 55.6% of the population in China are currently living in the urban areas which is fairly good in a country such as China, compared to the 18.3% in 1982.1 However the rate of urbanization is at a rate of 3.01%, which is a fairly high rate as compared to the world.32With over 44.4% of China’s population not living in an urbanized area, rises the question of how to quickly and effectively move the slum population into adequate housing. Many questions arise from urbanizing a large portion of a population such as, how can China manage its population, how can China decrease the social barrier between the slums and urban areas, and lastly what classifies as adequate housing? China has already implemented some population restrictions upon its in inhabitants. The one child policy is put in place order to control the Chinese population of the country meaning less people to house in the future. It is proven effective by at least preventing 400 million births in 1980.3 This comes with a drawback of putting more pressure on the China’s economic future with the ratio of the elderly to the working force increasing. Ultimately cutting almost 400 million future workers, it puts a heavy strain on. With one child per household, it is effectively

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