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January 23, 2012

Political Pollution: How Smog is Changing China

Joe Jackson, Time Magazine


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China confirmed this week that the number of its citizens living in cities has surpassed the rural population for the first time in its history. That massive urbanization — 690.79 million people are now city-dwellers according to the National Bureau of Statistics — has brought huge benefits, chief among them lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. . .

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