Leaving the fields behind, villagers become city slickers
«When we leave the apartment, i am going to remember to turn the gas off,» stated Xu Chaohui in a serious vocals.
Xu is not a 5-year-old along the way of learning household security. Rather, this woman is a 63-year-old former farmer whom has spent nearly all of her life for a farm on the northeastern outskirts of Chongqing, the massive municipality in Southwest China.
Before September, Xu had never prepared with gasoline, but whenever her household moved into a condo in a 20-story building, she changed from farmer to brand new citizen that is urban.
To better adapt to her new identity, Xu, along with 1,686 neighbors, enrolled in a citizenship system in the community where they learned the does and don’t of urban living. Residence safety, including utilizing the gas correctly, is one of the skills that are new has already established to master.
Like Xu and her neighbors, millions of Chinese farmers are now being granted urban residence permits, known as hukou, throughout the process of urbanization. (más…)