Why did support from people in the Chinese countryside help the Communists more than support from people in the cities helped the Nationalists?

China’s countryside had a much larger population than its cities, so peasant support gave the Communists a broad base of recruits and resources. This helped them build a stronger movement than the Nationalists could gain from urban support. Choice A gives this population-based reason; the other choices do not explain the advantage as directly.

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