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China's economy and society have undergone sea changes in the past seven decades, and so have people's occupations. 中国的经济和社会在过去70年间经历了翻天覆地的变化，人们的职业也经历了巨变。 In the early years after the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, the majority of the population worked as farmers. At that time about 180 million people were employed, and only 8.3 percent of them worked in urban areas, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed. 在1949年中华人民共和国成立初期，中国大部分人口都是农民。国家统计局的数据显示，当时约有1.8亿就业人口，其中只有8.3%的人口在城镇工作。 In 2018, the country's employed population surged to 780 million, with over 56 percent working in cities. 2018年，中国就业人口增加到7.8亿，其中超56%在城市工作。 | 
