The Economist (US), June 22nd, 1991
IN AN effort to find jobs," said the urgent" circular from China's Ministry of Agriculture in March, "some surplus labour-forces in rural areas have been pouring into key cities in economically developed areas along the coast." Quite so, and one of the places from which they pour is Sichuan, China's most populous province.
The reason is the pressure of Sichuan's population. If the province, with its 108m people, were a country, it would be the world's tenth most populous and as big as France. But much of the land is mountainous, so the people crowd into the fertile areas. In the rice paddie...
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