China Rural-urban Migration Motivation Analysis And Empirical Research

Combined with developed capitalist countries’industrial process, industrialization is the precondition for the take-off of national economy, and farmers’moving from countryside to city, from agriculture to industry is the inevitable product extending from the whole economy’s process of industrialization. It can effectively push the whole economy’s industrialization, and meanwhile it is also an inevitable result of industrialization. Since the twenty-first century, with the great changes in Chinese economy, a large number of rural-urban migrations have emerged, exerting great influences on China’s urbanization, industrialization and modernization.This paper is a theoretical research and empirical analysis on rural-urban migration, specifically, is to provide a way of thinking for the factors explaining the intrinsic motivation and factors affecting rural-urban migrations, and to test the described model by the statistical data of China. As for the basic framework of the thesis, it mainly starts off from two perspectives:economic factors and non economic factors. On the one hand, the author of the thesis gives a modern economics analysis to rural-urban migration by applying cost-benefit theory and the equilibrium of supply and demand theory in microeconomics; on the other hand, by combining normative analysis and empirical analysis, the effects that system, individual characteristics and other non economic factors bring to rural-urban migrations are analyzed.To be exact, the paper can be divided into four parts:The first part includes chapter one and chapter two. Based on the description of topic basis, the author defines the related concepts involved in the thesis. In this part, firstly, in order to grasp the research progress of the whole thesis, the literature review of domestic and overseas researches of rural-urban migration is presented. Secondly, classical theories at home and abroad are reviewed. This part is the theoretical basis of the thesis.The second part is the3-4chapters of this thesis. In this part, firstly, the historical changes, status quo and future trend of China’s rural-urban migration are analyzed, which is followed by the comprehensive analysis of the macro and micro factors affecting Chinese rural-urban migration so as to carry on the subsequent empirical study on the motivations.The third part is the fifth chapter of this thesis. It includes the construction of theoretical model and empirical test. In this part, the author adopts economic analysis method to analyze economic factors and non economic factors respectively.The fourth part is the sixth chapter. It is the conclusion part. Given the above empirical analysis, the following countermeasures are put forward, which mainly include: narrowing the income gap between urban and rural areas, improving the income distribution mechanism of urban and rural residents; optimizing the industrial structure, forming a benign interaction between industry structure and rural-urban immigration growth and expanding the demand of migrant labor while readjusting industrial structure; promoting the reform of rural land circulation system; with integrated planning, deepening the reform of the household registration system step by step.This study found that:the fundamental reason for rural-urban migration is urban and rural income gap; the industrial structure has great influence on rural-urban migration; most systems in China have urban bias, which have side effect on rural-urban migration. The innovation of this thesis lies in the research of rural-urban migration from both economic and non-economic factors and the empirical test of the non-economic factors such as land system and city biased policies through the econometrics model.