And I thought urban sprawl in the U.S. was causing problems in rural areas.
Even as China grows, the land where the cities are being built is giving rise to some major social injustice. Unlike the system of land ownership we're used to in the US, farmers do not generally own land in China. The land belongs to the village, which was fine as long as no one wanted it for much other than farming. The farmers 'leased' the land. Now that cities need places to build, the heads of villages are making a pretty penny by selling off that communal land and pocketing the profits. The people who lived there lose everything, and the society considers them 2nd class citizens already, which prevents them from making a place in the cities for themselves.
Not fair.
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Its seems as thought everyone is getting things ripped from them lately.