Urban-rural collaboration part of the recipe for balanced development
CATEGORY: Inclusive Economic Development
DATE: 8 January 2019
DATE: 8 January 2019
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To mark the 40th anniversary of its opening-up policy, China hosted an international forum to share the lessons of its metamorphosis from an impoverished agrarian society to a powerhouse of the global economy. One of the country’s best-kept secrets revealed at the forum was the collaboration fostered between cities and rural areas to induce development in lagging regions. South Africa could learn much from this experience of building prosperity and cohesion from the bottom up through reciprocal actions by localities.
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