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Junior Scholastic: China’s Big Move – CTRL + Click Title for Article
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Essential Question: Why is the government forcing millions of Chinese farmers to move into the cities?
WORD FRAMING – Significant Words:
Subsistence
Farming
Farmers who grow just
enough crops to feed their
families. This type of
farming usually does not
leave any leftover crops to
sell or trade. Many rural
Chinese farmers are
Subsistence farmers.
The communist government is forcing rural farmers in China to leave their farms and move to the cities.
What are they hoping will happen from this forced migration?
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Migration Nation
Since this is a forced migration from the Chinese government, think of the positive and negative effects
this migration could have on both the people and the cities.
Positive
Negative
People
People
Cities and Urbanization
Cities and Urbanization
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Junior Scholastic: China’s Big Move
Essential Question: Why is the government forcing millions of Chinese farmers to move into the cities
China’s Rise
Explain what China hopes to do to boost its economy by forcing the rural Chinese to
move to the cities from farm land.
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In your opinion, do you think this plan could work? Are there any possible “pitfalls” to
this plan?
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“Nothing to Do”
What are the current problems faced by the new immigrants to the urban way of life?
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