Comment Re:It's an internship. (Score 1) 481
That's the reason half the population lives in towns, because most of them were forcibly moved to be become a ready source of labor.
You got it backward. People want to go to cities for any kind of job because life in the countryside sucks so much. The Chinese government is very careful about this and has basically set up an internal passport to control movement from countryside to city and province to province. People still move but they have less rights than real urban residents.
The democratic alternative is India, where people also go to the cities and also don't have much rights