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Urban villages (Chinese: 城中村; pinyin: chéngzhōngcūn; literally: "village in city") are villages that appear on both the outskirts and the downtown segments of major Chinese cities, including Shenzhen and Guangzhou. They are surrounded by skyscrapers, transportation infrastructures, and other modern urban constructions. Urban villages are a unique phenomenon that formed part of China's urbanization efforts. Urban villages are commonly inhabited by the poor and transient, and as such they are associated with squalor, overcrowding and social problems. However, they are also among the liveliest areas in some cities and are notable for affording economic opportunity to newcomers to the city. Modern life in China's urban village is vastly different from the traditional agricultural way of life due to the lack of farmland. A new lifestyle has developed in which landowners build multi-story houses (which is allocated by the village collective) and rent them to the city's floating population, w

Urban village (China) - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Villages in and around large Chinese cities This article needs more citations . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . Find sources: "Urban village" China – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2010 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Xiancun Village of Tianhe District , Guangzhou Huanggang and Shuiwei Villages (lower right) of Futian District , Shenzhen Urban villages ( Chinese : 城中村 ; pinyin :

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