An Investigation Study On The Problems Of Dongxiang Immigrants In Gulang County, Gansu Province

It's one of the major exploratory policies that Chinese resolves the poverty problems in some areas by relocating. The voluntary migration in China began form 1983.So far, some fresh progress has been made and some experience has been accumulated in immigration work. Chinese Government began to list voluntary work to help the poor as an important task of our country. Gansu provincial government and governments at all levels carried out a serious of investigations and studies, and had identified a series of guidelines of the development and construction to help the poor, and constituted performance scheme combined with practice, combined settling the problems in finding enough food and clothing in the poverty-stricken areas with the resettlement work in the areas with better conditions, and relocated the migrants in the central arid region and the southern mountain region to Hexi prefectures and irrigated areas by water of Yellow River. Among these, there is a typical example that 219 Dongxiang nationality families, 1056 people from Dongxiang county, Guanghe county in Linxia have moved in irrigation district in Gulang County.This paper takes the five Dongxiang immigrant villages in Gulang county Gansu province (respectively located in Dajing town, Haizitan town and Zhitan township in Gulang county) as the research object, and systematically investigates and studies the practice .This dissertation consists of seven chapters.The first chapter, which is the prolegomenon of the dissertation, is mainly about the origin, objectives, research methods and the ideas of the study, the domestic and the international current research conditions. The second chapter is about the basic situation of the Dongxiang immigrants in Gulang, based on the natural ecological environment, population and economic development background and ethnic relationship. The third chapter is mainly a description to the models and the relocation policies. The chapter fourth analysis the driving forces to relocate according to the theory. The fifth chapter analysis and interprets the relocation benefits from the economy, ecology and society. The chapter VI interprets the social and cultural changes of immigrants from Dongxiang language-use changes, marriage and family, planned parenthood and religion.The last chapter is a further analysis and peroration to the topic. In this part the author analysis the main problems of Ethnic Minority of Dongxiang Immigrants in Gulang County, and points out some suggestions and countermeasures to be taken in order to stabilize the immigrants and achieve the purpose of poverty alleviation and development.