By IANS,
Beijing : Over 100 million Chinese farmers are likely to migrate to urban areas over the next decade, Xinhua reported.
According to the report titled “2011 Report on the Development of China’s Floating Population” released Sunday, the country’s urban citizens will exceed 800 million by 2020.
China’s economically developed coastal areas, with Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou as centres, are among the most attractive areas for farmers, the report said. China has been witnessing large-scale urbanisation over the past 30 years since its economic reforms.
The country plans to raise the urbanisation rate to 52 percent by 2015 and to 65 percent by 2030, according to the government’s 12th Five-Year-Plan (2011-2015).
The report also noted that public services in cities, including family planning management services, should be further improved to better serve urban citizens.