An Analysis of the Situation Of China''''s Floating Population

Thefloatingpopulationisdefinedinthisanalysisasthepopulationmovingtoothertownships,townsorurbansubdistrictsforoverhalfayearwithoutchangingtheirhouseholdregistration,butnotincludingthosemovingwithindifferentpartsofacityatprefecturallevel,womenmarriedouttotheirhusbandswithoutchanginghouseholdregistrationandstudentsstudyingfarfromtheirnativetown.samplingsurveyofthefloatingpopulationconductedin1995.GeneralsituationofthefloatingpopulationTherewere53.497millionmigrantsin1995inthecountry,accordingtoca…     

Major Challenges for China＇s Floating Population and Policy Suggestions： An Analysis of the 2010 Population Census Data

This study analyzes the trends and current characteristics of floating population in China and the major challenges they arc facing, on the basis of the latest population census data. The research shows that the size of floating population has increased continuously and rapidly, their mobility intensity is weakening, migration destinations are beginning to decentralize, majority of the migrants are moving with their spouses and more and more of them are taking their young children with them, the new-generation floaters whom wereborn after 1980 account for more than half of the entire floating population. The floaters are facing challenges such as unemployment, lack of social security, inequality in children＇s education, and barriers in social integration. This article proposes corresponding suggestions. The problem of new-generation floaters and floating children should be addressed adequately, and there is an urgent need to accelerate the establishment of social security for migrants.     

Characteristics of China’s Vulnerable Population

Five Major Characteristics of China’s Vulnerable Population: 1. The socially vulnerable population is the main part of the vulnerable population, mainly because it is their position in     

Projection on China’s Population Development by China Population Information and Research Center

Projection on China’s Population Development by China Population Information and Research Center     

Present Situation of China’s Aged Population

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A Study on China’s Marriage Squeeze

China's male marriage squeeze and its potential consequence have attracted much attention and given rise to debate, but most studies contribute this squeeze to sex structure and neglect the age structure, and some studies use fl awed method to study the contribution of age structure in this squeeze. In this paper we develop an indicator of Spousal Sex Ratio(SSR) and apply a decomposition method into age and sex structure. Based on the data from China's 2010 census and projection, we predict that from 2010 to 2020, the age structure will be the dominant factor for China's male marriage squeeze, and from 2020 to 2034, the contribution of sex structure will be increasing, whereas that of age structure will be decreasing. From 2034 to 2045, China's male marriage squeeze will mainly from imbalanced sex structure, and the age structure will contribute little or negatively to China's male marriage squeeze.     

Projection on China’s Population by the United Nations,World Population Estimation,1998

Projection on China’s Population by the United Nations,World Population Estimation,1998     

Survey on FP/RH of Floating Population

Current Situation and Challenges Family planning among the floating population is critical to stabilizing the current low fertility level in China. The majority of the floating population is farmer workers who are sexually active. According to the 2004 sampling survey conducted by the National Statistical Bureau, the number of     

China’s Tibetan Population and Population in Tibet

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The Robustness of China’s Migration and Heihe-Tengchong Line

Migration has been most active among three major population movements and affective to population distribution.However,this paper first finds that the pattern of China’s inter-provincial migration is robust since China’s reforming and opening based on the analysis on the distribution of inter-provincial migration scale,intensity and population flow.Therefore,the continual migration in the past 80 years,especially since China’s reforming and opening,has not changed the basic feature of China’s population distribution and has no effective influence on the robustness of Heihe-Tengchong Line.The basic pattern of China’s population distribution and Heihe-Tengchong Line mainly depend on the constant geographic position as shown in the First Nature Rule.Without any change of the First Nature Rule,China’s population distribution and Heihe-Tengchong Line remain highly stable,and the migration is unlikely to lose the robustness.     

Old-Age Support in Rural China：An Empirical Study

IntrodCtionPraetiees among rural residents in eentral and westernChina.Census data of 2000 indieated that the ChinesePoPulation aged 65 and over had aeeounted for7%ofthe total PoPulation.In urban areas,in Partieular,thatratio was 6.30%and in rural areas,it was 7.35%.Onaverage,China had entered an aging soeiety. Inrecent years,old一age suPPort inrural China haseaught the attention of government offieials andscholars alike.This 15 beeause     

The Impacts of Rural Labor Migration on China’s Economy and Regional Disparities

This study constructed Computable General Equi-librium(CGE) model of four-regions and six-departments to analyze the impacts of rural labor migration on economic growth and regional disparities in China, based on 2000 and 2007 China’s Regional Input-Output Tables. The results showed that it had made China’s GDP respectively grow from 1.054% in 2000 to 5.565% in 2007.The impacts had the most obvious effects on the eastern region’s economic growth, the largest growth rate on the central region’s economic growth, and a negative-to-positive transformation on the western region’s economic growth. Compared with rural labor migration within regions, it widened gap among regions in 2007,making the disparities of eastern-central, eastern-western and central-western respectively grow by 5.738%,6.668% and 12.627%. These disparities were much higher than those in 2000.Meanwhile the migration led value added in nonagricultural sectors to increase and added value in agricultural sector to decrease. Also it left the greater impact on the service sector of the central region and greatest impact on the heavy industrial sectors of the western region.     

President Jiang Zemin on China’s Population and Family Planning

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The Short-Term Impact of Involuntary Migration in China’s Three Gorges: A Prospective Study

The aim of this study is to measure the short-term impact of involuntary migration resulting from China’s Three Gorges Dam project on the 1.3 million persons being displaced. We focus on the social, economic, and mental and physical health impact using three sets of indicators. Using a prospective research design, we gathered information about these indicators from a sample of migrants first before they moved and then again after they moved. Changes in the migrants’ wellbeing during the period, when benchmarked to corresponding changes computed for a control group of non-migrants, are attributed to the impact of involuntary migration. Our results showed that although the displaced have enjoyed a relative gain in housing quality, most of the changes were in the negative direction and many of such negative changes were statistically significant.     

The Impact of Migration on Fertility under China’s Underlying Restrictions: A Comparative Study Between Permanent and Temporary Migrants

Compared with that in other countries, the issue of fertility in China is more complicated because of its restriction policy or system. Several major hypotheses have been proposed to explain and predict the impact of migration on China’s fertility regardless of China’s real situation. Therefore, this paper analyzes the impact of migration on fertility considering China’s underlying restrictions using the data from the Chinese General Social Survey carried out in 2008. The social class in this study was divided into two, namely urban class and rural class. By building the 2 × 2 mobility tables and the diagonal mobility model, the study determined the impact of migration on fertility and analyzed the influence of some restrictions, such as family planning, traditional fertility concept, and household registration system. Results show that migration greatly affects fertility: upward migration (i.e., from rural to urban) may decrease the fertility, whereas downward migration (i.e., from urban to rural) may increase it. The degree of decline on fertility is greater than that of increase. Family planning still plays a role in fertility decline. Traditional concepts on fertility, for example, bringing up sons to take care of parents in their old age and preferring boys to girls, are anchored on the people’s mind, which is detrimental to the stability of the fertility rate. Moreover, the household registration system primarily influences the fertility behavior of temporary migration, with a negative relationship between them.     

Study on the Situation of Left-in-hometown Children in China

The issue of rural children left behind by parents who have migrated to the cities has become an important topic that has drawn much attention. This     

The Effect of Urbanization on China’s Fertility

The relationship between urbanization and fertility decline is known to be inverse in developed countries. However, the nature of this relationship in developing countries that already have relatively low fertilities is not well-understood. This study aims to illustrate how much urbanization contributed to China’s fertility decline between 1982 and 2008 and forecasts how much it can contribute to future reductions in fertility. The study examines changes in the total fertility rate (TFR) at both the national and provincial levels, given regional differences in the urbanization rate. The results show that changes in rural fertility behavior accounted for most of the decline in the national TFR between 1982 and 2008. This finding suggests that official birth control policies were instrumental in curbing China’s population growth. However, urbanization was responsible for about 22% of the decrease in TFR during this period, and its effect was especially important during the latter years (2001–2008). In most provinces, urbanization associated with a decline in provincial-level fertility. The forecasts indicate that urbanization will become the primary factor behind future declines in national fertility. Given the negative effect of urbanization on the TFR, it is possible to relax the one-child policy without having adverse implications for population growth.     

First Census of Floating Population in Beijing

TheBejjingMunicipalGovernmentconducteditsfirstevercensusofthefloatingpopulationonNovember1,1997,inthe18urbandistrictsandcountiesunderitsjurisdiction.ThetargetpopulationofthecensuswasmigrantslivingorstayinginBeijingatthetime,butwiththeirhukou(householdregistration)elsewhere,excludingthePLAmembersandarmedpolice.Followingarethemajorresultsofthecensus.sizeandchangesinthenumberofthefloatingpopulationCensusdatashowBeijinghadafloatingpopulationof2.859million,includingpeoplefromotherprovinces,muni…     

The Effects of Children’s Migration on Elderly Kin’s Health: A Counterfactual Approach

Recent studies of migration and the left-behind have found that elders with migrant children actually experience better health outcomes than those with no migrant children, yet these studies raise many concerns about self-selection. Using three rounds of panel survey data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey, we employ the counterfactual framework developed by Rosenbaum and Rubin to examine the relationship between having a migrant child and the health of elders aged 50 and older, as measured by activities of daily living (ADL), self-rated health (SRH), and mortality. As in earlier studies, we find a positive association between old-age health and children’s migration, an effect that is partly explained by an individual’s propensity to have migrant children. Positive impacts of migration are much greater among elders with a high propensity to have migrant children than among those with low propensity. We note that migration is one of the single greatest sources of health disparity among the elders in our study population, and point to the need for research and policy aimed at broadening the benefits of migration to better improve health systems rather than individual health.     

Current Situation and Recent Analysis of the Floating Population in Beijing

In this article, the author analyzed the structure,d istribution,f inancial conditions and living conditions of the floating population in Beijing based on the statistics in th"eSurvey on 1‰ of the Floating Population in Beijing (2006)". The research shows that: