The Research On Influence Of Rural Labor Transfer On Grain Production

Along with China’s industrialization and urbanization, rural labor continuously transfers from rural area to city and town. It is essential for China’s major strategic issues of food security to study how rural labor transfer affect food production, it is also conducive to correctly understand and promote China’s urbanization process, In a history logic way, the historical changes of rural labor transfer in China is investigated, Which explores the policy factors for rural labor transfer in different historical stages. China’s rural labor transfer is under different policies from "controlling transfer", "allowing transfer" to "regulating transfer" and "fair transfer" policy, continuously opening and expanding.There are many factors affecting food production, including natural factors, economic factors and rural labor transfer factors. Labor transfer’s effects can not single on food production. As China’s reform of household registration system and land system deepening, labor transfer is during the course of changing from an absolute surplus stage to an relative surplus phase, its effects on food production is becoming more and more complex than ever before after the first Lewis turning point, which is probably beneficial or harmfulThrough an empirical test of China’s grain production data from1985 to 2011, The conclusion is that the rural labor transfer promotes the food production in China, which shows rural labor transfer’s positive effect is greater than its negative effect on grain production in China’s, which is benefited from China’s government preferential agricultural policies to support agriculture. So, against such a background of a mass rural labor transfer, policymakers must continue formulating and improving relevant policies, to avoid the occurrence of the "hollowing rural area " and "ageing rural area " phenomenon, reduce the rural labor transfer’s negative impacts on food production.