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A report published by Suzhou Civil Affairs Bureau shows that locals are delaying getting married.
As of the end of 2012, two villages in Zhangjiagang had gained the national-level eco-village title, 84 the provincial-level title and 13 city-level title in Suzhou.
But the village committee does not seen an end to local development and is drawing a bigger blueprint for the village's future development.
There is no smoking allowed on the pedestrian walkways in the city of Zhangjiagang, a city in Jiangsu Province.
Since 1992, the city government has conducted several promotional drives to clean up the city.
While visiting the country's rural settlements is often like traveling back in time, workers and even tourists flock to Yonglian village to see "the future of the Chinese countryside".
Fan Huiping has seen both sides of migrant life. He joined the exodus of workers who left Jiangsu province's Zhangjiagang city in the 1980s, when it was a poor farming settlement. He now lives among the 600,000 migrants who flock to his hometown-turned-boomtown, where the average annual per capita GDP is about $23,000 - 4 times the national figure. That's why he supports the city government's New Citizens Initiative, which seeks to better balance privileges enjoyed by migrants - whom the city instead calls "new citizens" - and locals.
