Chen Xiwen, who heads the Chinese Communist Party's office on rural policy, said Monday that about 20 million migrant workers -- nearly a sixth of the total -- lost their jobs in recent months.
Farming isn't really an option, because Shuangyao is massively overpopulated. The average family's landholding is just two mu, or about 1,300 square meters, enough that a family can usually survive off their harvest, but not to provide any real cash income.
Almost all revolutions begin with poverty and famine.
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