Urbanization should provide new opportunities to farmers

Villages prevailed in the Communist Party of China's revolutionary discourse until the latter won the civil war over the Kuomintang by mobilizing poor farmers to besiege cities in 1949, when 90 percent of China's 500 million population was rural.

The crux of the agricultural country's urbanization today also lies in the villages. Farmers now want to enter cities after being fended off for a long time.

By the end of 2011, more people lived in urban areas than in rural areas in China for the first time in the agricultural nation's 5,000 years of civilized history.