They are basically building urban apartments and trying to entice them to move.

A Japanese director made a documentary about one of the poorest regions in China.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GgWZDvgW9OA

There are English subtitles.

I am alluding to the forced migration to city life (including malls to spend money at). This was simultaneously done while razing the villages and all of their history, interestingly, China as we know it, with all of their history erasing going on, is only about 70 years old.