Rural China is home to many small farms and traditional industries, but productivity is falling. There are not enough new industries to provide economic growth. Young people continue to leave rural areas for big cities. The situation is bad enough that Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on talented workers from the cities to move to the countryside. That is an unusual idea for a country where the growth of cities has been an important step toward prosperity. The ruling Communist Party appears to have several aims in calling for a return to rural areas. The party wants to avoid social unrest in highly populated areas. It also wants to increase spending all over the country and to control the fast growth in big cities. Party leaders also want to increase the power of rural areas, where an estimated 577 million people live.
Title: China Wants Young People Working in the Countryside
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2684/6dc67a30-0a73-46f3-bc5f-377aaaf0f233_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='China Wants Young People Working in the Countryside' data-article-id='3242'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10479'>Rural China is home to many small farms and traditional industries, but productivity is falling.</span> <span data-start-time='10479' data-end-time='16417'>There are not enough new industries to provide economic growth.</span> <span data-start-time='16417' data-end-time='23021'>Young people continue to leave rural areas for big cities.</span> <span data-start-time='23021' data-end-time='37167'>The situation is bad enough that Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on talented workers from the cities to move to the countryside.</span> <span data-start-time='37167' data-end-time='48563'>That is an unusual idea for a country where the growth of cities has been an important step toward prosperity.</span> <span data-start-time='48563' data-end-time='57896'>The ruling Communist Party appears to have several aims in calling for a return to rural areas.</span> <span data-start-time='57896' data-end-time='64458'>The party wants to avoid social unrest in highly populated areas.</span> <span data-start-time='64458' data-end-time='75250'>It also wants to increase spending all over the country and to control the fast growth in big cities.</span> <span data-start-time='75250' data-end-time='87854'>Party leaders also want to increase the power of rural areas, where an estimated 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cities'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2684/the_united_states.wav'><span>the United States</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2684/the_desert.wav'><span>the desert</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2684/france.wav'><span>France</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2684/big_cities.wav'><span>big cities</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=11148 data-hint-location='57896' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2684/the_party_wants_to_avoid__blank__in_highly_populated_areas.wav'>The party wants to avoid <span class='blank'>social unrest</span> in highly populated areas.</div><div 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