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While China's economy has boomed over the past 30 years, many of its 700 million farmers have been stuck in poverty. Their only hope of earning a wage has been far from home in the factories and building sites of the boomtowns. Now the huge rural hinterland has been told it needs to modernize too. Carrie Gracie witnesses the upheaval as a rural community in the mountains is turned into a city. | ||||||
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The farmers who lived there have had to give up their land and their rural lifestyles and move into apartment complexes.
Even their burial grounds have had to be relocated. The BBC’s Carrie Gracie spent time in White Horse Village over the last three years and reports on the impact this transformation has had on its residents. |
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Carrie Gracie profiles Xiao Zhang (below) , a young mother impatient for a new city life. She believes it will help her find a way out of poverty for her children. However, her dreams threaten to tear her family apart. Listen here |
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The local Communist Party secretar, Xiang Caiguo (right), has had to convince his neighbors in White Horse Village to give up their old ways of life for the common good. Carrie Gracie witnesses his desperate struggle to reconcile his duties to the Communist Party and to his own family as White Horse Village disappears forever. 
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