Collapse in China — Millions Gone, Massive Empty Villages emerge

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Over the past thirty years, China's urbanization has progressed at an astonishing pace, and the sharp decline in the rural population and the disappearance of villages have become irreversible trends. Especially after three years of the pandemic, hundreds of millions of rural residents have disappeared.

From 1990 to 2022, the number of villages nationwide decreased from 3.77 million to 2.33 million, an average of more than 100 villages disappearing every day.

China used to be a country with 1.4 billion people, and everywhere was overcrowded. This situation now seems to have changed. Data shows that the rural population decreased from 800 million in 2000 to 500 million in 2024.

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