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Question 1: Prepare your answers in a separate Word file and submit your file within the time limit of 80 minutes. (You will not be able to submit after 82 minutes unless you have approved accommodations.)

Answer three questions in complete sentences. Do not include any table or graph in your answers.

(Note: the y-axis shows the % of migrant flow, or migrant stock in each age group, respectively)

a) What is unusual about the age profile(s)? Explain in about 70 words. (2 points)

b) Explain in about 100 words two major processes driving the shapes of the age profiles in the graph. (3 points)

Q2. "In 2015, an estimated 120 to 150 million rural residents migrated from the countryside to find work in the cities in China."

The above is commonly found in the media but it is problematic. What is wrong with that statement? Explain in about 150 words. (4 points)

Q3. Below is a paragraph about China's recent migration, written by a China geographer:

"In the popular media and the business world, urbanization is often cited as the fundamental driver of economic growth. The assumption is that a rural-urban shift will transform poor farmers into industrial and office workers raising their incomes and creating a massive consumer class. Farmers who once live simple subsistence lives become workers in the city buying up apartments and furnishing them with appliances. Not surprisingly, China has been considered by many the poster child for this linear model of rural-urban transformation and consumer growth. If one simply looks at the number of people relocating, China is indeed undergoing rapid migration and urbanization. But while its epic rural-urban shift has many of the trappings of what amounts to urbanization elsewhere in the world, urbanization in China is a more complicated phenomenon that requires a deeper understanding beyond the superficial, one dimensional narrative."

Do you agree with the author that migration in China is more complicated than the "typical" one? Elaborate and write a short essay in about 400 words in response to the text above, and explain why you think that China's rural-urban migration is different or not from that in other developing countries.