Rooted Plight

The success of the Yangtze Gorges Project is upcoming and a variety of celebrations are about to extend. Right at this moment, the author would like to remind that the unrivaled project will not only bring benefit of electricity, with amount of 84.7 billion KW, but a grant migration, about 1.2 millions migrants. Among which, more than 160,000 village migrants with the identity of farmers to move to other 11 provinces continuously, Shandong as the only northern settlement to order is especially noticeable.This article studies the case of migrants from the Zhong County, Chongqing Municipality to the Xusheng County, Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province. The migrants came to Shandong in mid-Augus, crossing over thousands of miles and several major cultural areas, arriving at Shandomg from Eastern Sichuan Cultural Aear. In order to help the migrants to adapt the life of the north China, to live happily as soon as possible, the local government resettled them in villages with better living conditions and tried to provide them with necessary convenience.However, the reality isn't far from satisfying. In spite of the fact that the migrants and the local people belong to the same race, same big culture tradtion, same religion and have no complicated ethnic or racialemotions, and thus have no problem of cultural identity, the differences in habits and customs, the mode of production, the dialects, and minor differences in customs and habits, and the loses of community resources have all contritributed to the the migrants and prevents them from resettlement smoothly. Moreover, all of these have led to mutual misunderstanding and distrust which made the migrants of halo during their interaction with the local government and the villagers into a tight corner. From present condition, they are obviously lack of community accepts, the social network reconstruction, and as a result, migrants couldn't take root in the resettlement area. In a long run, they will encounter a series of life problems, including weak support, short of means for economic development, and even of marriage of their younger generation will have difficulties. These are the various hidden troubles to migrants' development.Therefore, this article proposes that if human, even the development project migrants from the same big tradition, is social cultural being that is far more complicated than the economic animals. Therefore, it is insufficient to handle their problem only from the economy and technical angles. The deeper toots the problem lies in the cultural differences, which brought about "isolated island effect" one they are removed from the hometown. This problem requires much more sophisticated solutions than the mere economy and technology. In a degree, we can say moderntechnology in communication and traffic can be a barrier in their acculturation. It is the author's hope that this research with anthropological perspective can provide some new way of thinkings for migrant administer, at the same time adds bricks and tiles also for the immigrant problem studies.