title: Rural development and rural to urban migration in China 1978-1990.
abstract: "Economic reforms since the late 1970s have brought about significant changes in rural China. A large number of surplus rural labourers have been released from the agricultural sector and there has been a massive transition of rural residents from agricultural to non-agricultural employment. These changes will be analyzed by examining the changes in the employment structure of rural residents.... It is found that town and country populations tended to move to towns at the intra-provincial level, but to cities at the interprovincial level. Out-migrants from cities tended to move to cities at both the intra- and inter-provincial levels."
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D001208:Asia; D002681:China; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D006280:Health Workforce; D009790:Occupations; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012939:Social Planning
keywords: Agricultural Workers; Asia; China; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Eastern Asia; Economic Factors; Employment; Human Resources; Labor Force; Macroeconomic Factors; Migration; Occupations; Population; Population Dynamics; Rural Development; Rural-urban Migration