Internal migration (C.S)

Question 1

Example of internal migration

Answer 1

Rural to urban China

Question 2

Pull factors (to urban)

Answer 2

• better education
• better employment/ job ops
• higher standard of living

Question 3

Negatives of urban China

Answer 3

• traffic and pollution
• overcrowding
• job and house shortages
• 270 have no water plant treatment so sewage dumped in rivers

Question 4

How did Government manage urbanisation

Answer 4

• improving education and transport
• more housing
• improving rural areas with pension schemes and land reforms, reduce poverty

Question 5

Push factors (from rural)

Answer 5

• few jobs available (machinery took over)
• 150 mill rural people unemployed
• 26 mill in poverty
• shortage of schools / health facilities

Question 6

Predicted urban population by 2025?

Answer 6

another 250 mill immigrants to urban areas population of 1 bill