Thousands were forced to migrate from rural to urban areas in search of work.

成千上万的人为了寻找工作被迫从农村涌进城市。

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There are about eight million rural children who migrate to China's cities like me and study at the nonstandard private schools because they don't have a City-Hukou.

中国现有约八百万农村儿童移居到城市后像我一样只能去不正规的私立学校学习，只因为他们没有城市户口。

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The problem is particularly bad in rural areas and small cities because younger populations typically migrate to big cities on China's rich eastern coast.

这个问题在农村和小城市尤为严重，这里的年轻人群通常都迁往到中国富裕的东部沿海大城市去了。

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As more and more of its people migrate from rural to urban regions, it needs the type of job creation that will keep these new concentrations of population productively employed.

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Many people must migrate for jobs, mostly from rural areas to the margins of cities and shanty towns.

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