The urban transition in China demonstrates that
a. governments can retard the urban transition, but cannot stop it.
b. the one-child policy has helped to slow down the urban transition.
c. the urban transition is consistent with a Marxian population perspective.
d. China's largest cities have absorbed most of the growth in the country's urban population.
Question 2
Tzintzuntzan, Mexico, illustrates the point that
a. even in Mexico, small rural places are absorbed by larger urban metropolises.
b. migrants from Mexico to the United States create a situation of population decline in rural Mexico.
c. a small village of artisans with a long indigenous history should not be thought of as rural.
d. population growth in rural villages leads to migration of younger people to urban places.
The classic stages of the demographic transition.
Hong Kong is a strange situation. A British colony since 1842, it was handed back to China in 1997 a
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