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Newsnight - White Horse Village

I just saw this video podcast from BBC Newsnight about White Horse Village in China, highlighting many of the urbanising pressures being felt by modern Chinese villagers. 150 million migrant workers have left their villages to work in the wealthy eastern seaboard cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. Meanwhile many other places in the countryside are rapidly being transformed into cities.The film is an update of a report that was filmed in the middle of last year. It focuses on the lives of Xia...