Large-scale immigration in China's history

Several large-scale immigrants in the history of China

Ge Xiong Jian Yu

There have been several large-scale immigrants in China's history. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, from the second year of Yuanshuo (127 BC) to the first year of Yuanfeng (1 10 BC), there were more than1200,000 immigrants who were completely implemented by the government. The expenses of the vast majority of immigrants from migration to settlement are entirely borne by the government, and there are a large number of officials and foot soldiers along the way. The farthest migration distance is two or three thousand kilometers. At that time, the total population of the Han Dynasty was about 36 million, and immigrants accounted for one thirtieth of the total population.

In the early Ming Dynasty, most of the large-scale immigrants were forced by administrative means or resettled by troops, and most of them were guided by preferential policies given by the government. Such as: moving rich households and landless peasants in the south of the Yangtze River to Fengyang, Anhui; Resettlement of military personnel and their families throughout the country through the establishment of health centers and institutions; The Mongolian soldiers and civilians who surrendered or were captured by the Great Wall were placed in all parts of the north. The total number of military and civilian immigrants reached 1 1 ten thousand, accounting for 16% of the total population.

In the early Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong formulated preferential policies to encourage immigrants to move into Sichuan. In the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776), more than 6 million immigrants and their descendants from Hunan, Hubei and Guangdong moved to Sichuan, accounting for more than 60% of the local population. From 1860, the Qing dynasty opened the "forbidden land" in the northeast, and then adopted an encouraging policy. A large number of immigrants from Shandong, Hebei and northern regions migrated to the northeast, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the total number of immigrants exceeded100000. (Wen Wei Po, June 2002.1) Source: Excerpts from articles.

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