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Spatial Analysis of Rural Labor Transfer in China

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DOI: 10.25236/humal.2017.78

Author(s)

Luan Qinglin

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Luan Qinglin

Abstract

Since the reform and opening, urbanization is the only way to modernization, and this has become the consensus. However, choosing what scale of the city can be taken as the spatial carrier of labor transfer, and this becomes a focus issue of scholarly debate. Among various views, the small cities and towns strategy, taking the small cities and towns as a priority development, has always been dominant in theory. What’s more, in the practice the Chinese government also tends to give priority to develop the small cities and towns, and adopts the policy of “controlling the size of large cities and developing the medium-sized cities reasonably”. We should examine China’s rural labor transfer from the spatial dimension so as to demonstrate the fact that large and medium-sized cities are the efficient spatial carriers of China’s rural labor transfer, and dismiss the urbanization strategy with popular elements of today’s era that we should give priority to develop the small cities and towns.

Keywords

Labor, Transfer, Spatial Analysis