Why are there more and more people leaving rural areas?

The first is the development trend of rural urbanization integration. Some villages have been relocated as per regulations. At present, the pace of urbanization in rural areas is accelerating, and many processing plants, companies, warehouses and outpatient departments of medium and large hospitals are located in rural areas. These new projects must occupy a lot of land and rural homesteads. Therefore, some farmers choose to develop in cities after receiving financial compensation, which will lead to an outflow of rural people. There is also the implementation of some relocation projects for poverty alleviation.

Maybe there are other reasons. For example, the settlement of coal mines, the expansion of new land acquisition projects, the construction of rural communities, etc. The transfer of rural villages to groups will also lead to population loss.

The second is that some children go to the city to develop, work or do business, and take their elderly people to the city to take care of themselves. Nowadays, many rural college students choose to stay in big cities after graduation and do not want to return to the countryside, thus losing some of them. Some of them have actually accumulated a certain amount of capital after practicing abroad for many years or more than 10 years, and then bought a house and settled in a big city.

Under normal circumstances, the vast majority of filial children would want to pick up the elderly left behind in the countryside, go to big cities to enjoy a good life, and retire in the city. Therefore, when left-behind elderly people also flock to big cities in large numbers, the hollowing out of villages will become increasingly prominent.

Third, some poor villages no longer want to live in such poverty, so they have gone out to big cities to find development prospects. There is no doubt that in some remote rural areas, due to remoteness and poverty, when the necessary guarantees for daily life such as education, community elderly care services, diagnosis and treatment, purchasing goods, etc. cannot be met, they have to look for better ways out. It's better than being poor at home.

Although some poor villages have been lifted out of poverty, there are still more than 60 million poor people in our country who have not yet been lifted out of poverty. This is because some poor people will no longer be able to endure poverty and will choose to go to big cities to find development directions in order to maintain food, clothing, housing and transportation for their families. Therefore, the departure of many poor people from rural areas is another reason for rural exodus.