Author: Liang Chen
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-87-08
Year: 1987
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1997
Examination Committee: A.T.M. Nurul Amin (Chairperson); B.W.E. Wickramanayake, Hideharu Morishita (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: This research is focused on the floating population in China because now there are millions of them working and living in the cities and metropolises. Actually, these numerous people are the rural surplus laborers. Along with the prosperity of urban economy and the process of urbanization, many of the surplus labors surge to the cities. Their presence in the urban sector has already caused serious effects on social, economic and ecological environment of Chinese cities. Although their advent can promote urban development and economic growth, improve the urban function and substantially increase the income of those poor peasants, the problems caused by them also affect the whole society. This is particularly visible in serious urban environmental deterioration. Thus, the issue of floating population is of great concern to government at all levels. This study identifies the demographic and social characteristics of the floating population in the cities. Most of them are the young male working-age laborers from the adjacent rural areas who migrated for work and business to improve their life and make more money. The majority of them are engaged in the physical work because of their low literacy. Their living and working environment are quite bad – low income, no social welfare, heavy work, dilapidated housing and crowded habitat. Based on such analyses, the study clarifies causes of this large-scale population migration in two contexts: rural pushing force and urban pulling force. The former mainly denotes the rural surplus labor, and the latter takes in view the labor requirement of the cities. This large-scale population migration promotes economic development not only in the urban sector but also in the rural sector meets the urgent labor requirement in the process of the prosperity of urban economy and offers a practical solution for livelihoods of the rural surplus laborers. However, the advent of these numerous floating population also aggravate the urban infrastructure worsen the e
Scholarship Donor(s): International Institute for Aerospace Survey & Earth Sciences (l.T.C., Netherland); Government of Japan
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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