title: Population movement in Zhejiang province, China:  the impact of government policies.
abstract: "China's urbanization policies include strict control of permanent migration to large cities, but encourage the growth of small cities and towns.  Concurrently, temporary migration is widely permitted as a way to stimulate commerce.  Data for Zhejiang province indicate that permanent mobility is largely directed toward urban places, that towns gain more than cities and that rural areas experience migration losses.  Permanent migrants to urban places are selective of the better educated.  Temporary migration is also urban directed but greater in volume than permanent migration, and places considerable strain on urban infrastructure.  Government policies are a key to understanding the migration streams and migrant characteristics.  The considerable net movement into cities suggests that strict control of city growth is more difficult to achieve than envisaged by policymakers."  This is a revised version of a paper originally presented at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (see Population Index, Vol.  55, No. 3, Fall 1989, p. 386).
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goldstein
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D002681:China; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004522:Educational Status; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005843:Geography; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D012424:Rural Population; D012923:Social Class; D012939:Social Planning; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Asia; China; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Development Planning; Eastern Asia; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Geographic Factors; Migrants; Migration; Migration Policy; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Rural Spatial Distribution--changes; Rural-urban Migration; Social Policy; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Spatial Distribution; Temporary Migration; Urban Spatial Distribution--changes; Urbanization