%0 Journal Article %A LU Qi %A WANG Guo-xia %A YANG Chun-yue %A ZENG Lei %T Some explanations to the relationships between the geographical distribution change of migrants and economic development change in regions of China,1990 and 2000 %D 2006 %R 10.11821/yj2006050002 %J GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH %P 765-774 %V 25 %N 5 %X

Since the migration is a complex economic and social driving phenomenon,to fully understand the relationship between the changes of migrants distribution and the changes of regional economic development is difficult and needs to be considered carefully.Based on the data base compiled from "The Fourth Population Census of China" and "The Fifth Population Census of China" and the relevant data from the statistical yearbooks of China in relevant years,this paper analyzed the regional changes of migrant population distribution of East,Central and West China as well as the regional changes of migrant population distribution in sub-regions of Bohai Rim,the Yangtze and Pearl river deltas from 1990 to 2000.In this paper the relationships between the regional changes of migrant population distribution and the changes of economic development in the corresponding regions were analyzed.It is found out that there is a high coincidence between the regional changes of migrant population distribution and the economic development at macro regions of East,Central and West China,i.e.the concentration of migrant population distribution depends on the regional economic development from 1990 to 2000.The distribution of migrants were in the order of East,Central and West China both in 1990 and 2000,which was just similar to the GDP,investment in fixed assets and level of industrial structure.However,there is only partly coincidence relationship between the two at the sub-regions of Bohai Rim,the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta.The growth of GDP and the investment in fixed assets in the Pearl River Delta resulted in disproportional sharp growth of local migrants from 1990 to 2000.Except for the great amount of labor-intensive industries in the Pearl Delta,this phenomenon may be explained by the social and human factors and costumes which determine the local development systems.Further investigations on the relation,data-based model building and the migration forecast in China may be the future research focus.

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