Reservoir resettlement are a special group who are forced to leave their homes for the sake of the construction of national water conservancy and hydropower projects.On the one hand,they have made sacrifices for the better development of the motherland;on the other hand,they have not received adequate compensation or support for a long time.China’s reservoir resettlement policy has experienced nearly70 years of development,from the initial stage of land compensation,through the stage of development of resettlement,"law" reform,to the current "poverty alleviation" stage.It can be found that the party and the government pay more and more attention to the interests of imresettlement,and support methods are more and more effective,so that the reservoir immigrants out of poverty determination is becoming more and more firm.This paper takes the change of China’s reservoir resettlement policy as the research object,firstly summarizes the evolution of China’s reservoir resettlement policy,divides the change of China’s reservoir resettlement policy into five stages,and summarizes and analyzes this evolution process with the relevant theories of institutional change and looks into the future.It is concluded that there are five main factors in the evolution of reservoir resettlement policy: first,government preference and limited rationality;Second,the limitation of social science knowledge;Third,external problems;Fourth,path dependence;Fifth,the level and type of human capital stock.The characteristics of reservoir resettlement policy changes in China are mandatory,induced,progressive,lagging and path-dependent.Based on this,the author puts forward the prospect of the future development of reservoir resettlement policy in China: breaking path dependence is the key;Promoting inter-agency collaboration is the direction;Improving the living environment in the resettlement areas is the foundation;It is a trend to carry out policy inspection. |