{"id":4799,"date":"2013-08-28T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T18:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:44:12","slug":"pickled-people-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/28\/pickled-people-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickled People-meter"},"content":{"rendered":"

from edible geography<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Pickle Index<\/h1>\n
By\u00a0NICOLA<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Published:\u00a0AUGUST 14, 2013<\/abbr><\/div>\n

\"TwoHeadsZhacai<\/p>\n

IMAGE: Two heads of whole\u00a0zha cai\u00a0with chilli paste; photograph by\u00a0Sjschen<\/a>\u00a0via\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Chinese officials, charged with moving\u00a0250 million rural farmers into cities over the next decade<\/a>\u00a0under the central government\u2019s sweeping\u00a0\u201cNational Plan for Promoting Healthy Urbanization (2011-20),\u201d<\/a>\u00a0have developed a \u201cpickle index\u201d for measuring the movement of migrant workers.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0South China Morning Post<\/em><\/a>, the country\u2019s National Development and Reform Commission has found that sales of\u00a0zha cai<\/i><\/a>, a pickled mustard tuber, provide a better guide to population flows than often unreliable provincial statistical data. As an unnamed planner explained to the\u00a0Economic Observer<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Under normal circumstances, urban consumption levels of convenience foods such as instant noodles and pickled mustard is essentially constant. Therefore, we can assume that volume changes are mainly caused by a city\u2019s floating population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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from edible geography The Pickle Index By\u00a0NICOLA\u00a0|\u00a0Published:\u00a0AUGUST 14, 2013 IMAGE: Two heads of whole\u00a0zha cai\u00a0with chilli paste; photograph by\u00a0Sjschen\u00a0via\u00a0Wikipedia. Chinese officials, charged with moving\u00a0250 million rural farmers into cities over the next decade\u00a0under the central government\u2019s sweeping\u00a0\u201cNational Plan for Promoting Healthy Urbanization (2011-20),\u201d\u00a0have developed a \u201cpickle index\u201d for measuring the movement of migrant workers. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}