Thoughts About The Transfer Channels For China's Surplus Rural Labor Forces

There are two basic premises about our country that we always have to bear in mind; one is many people VS limited land, the other one is city-country mutually isolated social and economic structure. Although transferring rural labors to cities or towns and developing non-agriculture industries in rural areas have contributed much to absorb rural labors, there are many constraints coming around the corner, especially for the former one. Because water, power, low level industry structure, human resources, and even some of the standing regulations, etc. As the gap between cities and rural areas is widening, there are more rural labors attracted to cities. The good effects of this phenomenon should not stop us thinking straight. There are many problems also caused by it to both the emigrated and immigrated places. It is our responsibility to think and find some relieving capsule.People are becoming more and more aware about the importance of environments around or faraway from us to our production, our daily lives since the beginning of this century. In fact, deteriorating of soil, lack of water or power, pile up of solid waste, air pollution, such of these, are becoming big constraints to our economic development. To perceive these problems from another way, we can find opportunities to solve both these environment problems and the problems mentioned above about transferring labors out of countries.Firstly, this paper takes a close look at the labor forces quantity of our country (especially rural areas). The conclusion about this part is that although the total labor supply of our nation will decline in 2013, there are still a good many labors to be transferred out of counties. Secondly, let check out the achievement of our past efforts, but it is a pity that the overall effect to the remaining tasks is like a bottle of water to a burning cart. So it is a realistic condition that there will be a large amount of people will stay or live in country areas for a very long time span. Thirdly, explicit analysis of the reasons why our efforts have little or limited effects(including industry structure, human resources, regulations and foods safety, four main reasons), and the urging need for soil maintenance, protection and development of environment, leads to the idea that transferring part of our rural labor forces into the environment projects sponsored mainly by government can have a multiple-win situation: conquering the constraints mentioned above, creating and accumulating environment capital for future development both socially and economically, narrowing the gap between countries and rural areas, and after all a nice macro condition.