The "besieged city" of great migration

Planned migration has played an important role in the contemporary history of China. After planned migration, farmers entered cities, which set off a wave of population migration in China in the future. After 1949, the large-scale population migration in China bears a strong brand of planning. The organized planned migration of the state has played an important role in border construction and resource development, and the huge migration project triggered by the Three Gorges Project has pushed the planned migration of China to a peak.

Compared with "immigrants", although restricted, spontaneous immigrants were still active in the 1950s and 1980s. According to statistics, in the short period of 30 years after 1949, the total number of spontaneous inter-provincial immigrants exceeded 1000000, among which Heilongjiang attracted at least 5 million immigrants because of the relatively shortage of wasteland, forests and coal mines.

Since the mid-1950s, the state has been strictly controlling the urban population. Not only the rural population can't move freely into cities and towns, but even the population of small and medium-sized cities can't move freely into big cities. After the reform and opening up, the loosening of the population management policy made the urban population of China start from 65.438+0.73 billion, and soared to 570 million in just 30 years, among which the rural population poured into the cities accounted for the vast majority, creating a miracle in the history of world immigration.

According to the survey of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the scale of rural population's transfer to cities and towns in China is increasing continuously, and it is estimated that the average number of farmers entering cities every year is about150,000. The continuous expansion of urban population and urban scale will undoubtedly be one of the most remarkable phenomena in China in the 2 1 century.