A good society will provide a safety net or "reservoir", and agriculture is China's employment reservoir. Now Didi and Meituan are gradually taking on this role. The employment reservoir is better than unemployment insurance, and of course it is better to have both.
Europe and the United States are developing faster and are now facing the opposite problem - insufficient labor. This is because the scale of capital > the scale of population, which is why immigration has become a mainstream choice.
Although immigration has brought various problems to Europe and the United States, it does solve the problem of labor shortage.
China's current urbanization progress bar is 66%. When this progress bar reaches more than 75% in about 10 years, China will enter a state similar to that of the West, with capital chasing people. At that time, agriculture will naturally become intensive because there will not be so much labor. If you don't intensify, it means losing money.
By then, China will face the same problems and soul-searching choices as the West: Should we emigrate? Where should we emigrate from? Because under the legal currency system, it is impossible to exceed the replacement level by relying on natural fertility rates.
I see that the pilot program has already started, such as Myanmar’s border resident certificate.
