U2Opener_s0_mp4.mp4 1 In the next couple of years, for the first time in the country’s history,(1) will outnumber rural ones. Chinese cities have ballooned in recent years as migrants from the countryside have surged in to (2) . This process of urbanization is a crucial driver of China’s (3) . 2 In 1978 only 18% of Chinese lived (4) . This rose to 30% in 1995 and to nearly 40% in 2002. Now it’s just shy of half. But this is still far lower than (5) urbanization rate of more than 75% or (6) of over 80%. 3 China’s (7) is running into difficulties. Young people have left the countryside in droves, leaving (8) only with elderly people and children. As the young migrants get older, they find it increasingly difficult to find work (9) . But still they have their land and some decide to go back.