| The in-situ urbanization is a very important feature of Quanzhou since the reform and opening up. The external floating population plays an important role in this process, of which the author makes a systematic investigation by means of on-the-spot survey and statistical data. The study result is as follows:Firstly, as one of the motivators of non-agriculture development in Quanzhou city , the influx of the external floating population has met great demand for labor forces needed by the township and village enterprises (TVEs) and foreign-funded enterprises. Their low wages has expedited the development of these enterprises. To date, the ratio of the external employed population in the total employed population has been on the rise. And to some extend, it increased the urbanization level of Quanzhou, reducing the spatial dispersion of its in-situ urbanization. Secondly, as a source of the in-situ urbanized population in Quanzhou, up to now, the proportion of the external floating population in the total population and urban population has shown a rising trend. Their distribution in the counties and cities of Quanzhou has a certain regularity, as with the disparity of development level of the TVEs.The above discussed function of the external floating population has brought non in-situ elements to the process of in-situ rural-urban transformation in Quanzhou. The paper analyzes the features of the origin, professional structure, employment and family life of the external floating population in Quanzhou through questionnaire survey, showing that the external transient population has strong bi-local feature, and that heir impact on the in-situ urbanization of Quanzhou is unstable.On the basis of investigating the bi-local feature of the external floatingpopulation and their unstable family life in the place of detination, the paperdiscusses the issues such as upgrading the structure of TVEs and the trend ofexternal floating population, shortage of peasant workers and backflow of the... |
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