CHINA INNER CITIES GET NEW LICK OF PAINT AS MIGRANT WORKERS FLUSHED OUT OF BEIJING

A ROBUST Chinese government-backed internal migration policy, forcing hundreds-of-thousands of migrant workers from Beijing through mass demolitions of buildings ruled to be unregulated or unsafe has – unexpectedly - boosted China’s provincial paint markets. Many labourers who had been painting city apartments and offices have left – increasing decoration prices in the capital and pushing these services into smaller cities as migrants move home or move to cities where such population control policies are absent. Various informal estimates have put the ...


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