Rural economy set to thrive

• Published 03 Sep 2009

Rapidly rising migrant worker wages and buoyant agricultural prices suggest a surge in rural fortunes is on the horizon.

A confluence of factors – some near term and cyclical and others longer term and structural – are creating the conditions for both an incipient surge in rural fortunes and a five to 15-year transformation in the rural economy. Thus, we have both a short-term and a long-term Big Call this issue.

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• Macro View

  Rich in rural promise

• Postcard From No 528

  Rustic stock picks and Goldman Sachs

• Forbidden City

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• Funds Data

  Taiwan optimism peaked?

• Consumer China

  Betting on the rural consumer

  Subsidy schemes drive rural vehicle demand

  Sending white goods to the countryside

• Financial China

  Rural finance taking off

• The Best of Chinese Commentators

  Inflation: pork-led?

  Resources: to tax or not to tax?

• Guest Column

  China's Sustainability March

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