The phenomenon which immigrants went to North-east community to survive had existed in the early history and North-east was the main areas where immigrants happened. Many refugees inside Shanhaiguan were the immigrant groups which played an important role in this phenomenon. By and large, the performance was more prominent during the period of 1897-1931. Refugees inside Shanhaiguan due to deteriorating living conditions were forced to go to North-east where were far from their hometowns to seek survival and development space . In North-east, population was so small, however, it was rich in natural resources, and many industries need a certain amount of labors urgently. Therefore, these refugees could survive much easier in the Northeast. On the one hand, with the influence caused by large number of immigrants, great changes had taken place in the Northeast society: Rapid population increase, rapid expansion of cultivated areas, rapid socio-economic development, had witnessed a significant improvement. On the other hand, Northeast's social problems existed in that time could not be ignored. Banditry had endangered the whole society, and some businessmen became well-off by the reclamation of wasteland contract, and then sub-contracted out to the reclamation people to gain profits and other phenomena, which increased their burden, and affected the reclamation process.In this paper, the author contacts social situation and living conditions of the people inside Shanhaiguan and the Northeastern region's superior natural resources, and the social environment and so on , to make a analysis of the population and arable land conflict, and damagement caused by natural and manmade disasters. Northeastern local governments took positive measures to encourage immigrants and immigrants' negative and positive effects on the social development in this area. With both inside Shanhaiguan's "push-force" and the Northeast's "pull-force", a large number of refugees inside Shanhaiguan left their homeland to the Northeast. This paper highlights these two following points: in this period, 1st, the measures taken by all levels of governments to encourage the immigrant.2nd,inside Shanhaiguan's immigrants' dual influence on Northeast's socio-economic development. |