| From the late 1980s onward, the large scale interregional migration of Chinese RURAL RESIDENTS,known as the"tide of rural-urban migrants,"has become an increasingly conspicuous social phenomenon. By mid-1990s, when the tide was still surging, some observers pointed out that it had led to some migrants returning to their hometowns to"start up"their own businesses. A lively discussion ensued about the direction of migration of rural labor in academic circles and among people concerned with policy issues. The crux of the question is: as the Chinese economy begins a stage of comprehensive restructuring, do RURAL RESIDENTS prefer to keep on working in cities, or to return to the countryside to start up their own businesses? The significance of the debate consists in what Chinese RURAL RESIDENTS actually prefer in choosing their job environment and mode of employment.Recent years, there comes the consensus that it is the key issue to improve rural residents'incomes. Since China's Economy Reforming, most of the raw labors in Eastern and Middle area of China and the frontier Administrative regions in Western China come from the rural area of Western China. As a consequence of the macro-economy policy, especially the agricultural policy leaning to the Western China rural regions in the latest three years, the structure of rural residents'income has changed a lot that the ratio of rural resents'agricultural income to the total has got a drawback from the past decline, which is the direct reason why people flow back to their hometown.The imbalance between regional economic developments causes the interregional migration of the rural labors in China, and the backflow of these labors is considered as the result of the relocation of the human labor resources in a market economy way. Also, the backflow can classify... |