Abstract: This article studies the domestic migration in China from rural residents’ perspectives and analyzes their reluctance to migrate to urban areas actively for permanent residence. Despite the ambitious program of the Chinese authorities to settle down 100 million rural populations in urban areas by 2020, the plan has not been met with enthusiasm by rural people. For studying the reasons behind the rural residents' disinterest, the paper examines the recent changes in urban and rural residence status named hukou in China and their influences on the decisions of people’s on the rural-to-urban migration. The paper argues that the changed socio-economic conditions in the past couple of decades that directly relate to the hukou status and the different regulations for cities at different levels contributed to the decision-making of rural residents regarding the rural-to-urban migration. The lack of interests of rural residents to move to cities permanently lies in the multiple factors that impede the realization of the ambitious new type of urbanization plan of China.
Keywords: Hukou, Urbanization, China, Migration.
Title: A New Hukou Trend in China: Rush to Urban is Outdated
Author: Elvir Mammadov
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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