Translation: “Why Do Urban Chinese Have So Many Misconceptions About the Countryside?” (Part One)

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China Digital Times

Despite huge leaps in recent decades, rural living standards remain an issue of widespread popular concern in China. A heating crisis in Hebei last winter, for example, became the focus of intense online discussion and subsequent censorship as the withdrawal of natural gas subsidies and a ban on traditional coal heating left many rural pensioners []