农民工进城与城市化(国外英语资料).doc

农民工进城与城市化 Migrant workers entering cities and urbanization In the future the city in the process of urbanization, migrant workers must be the long-term trend, if not a large population of migrant workers into the city to work, is bound to form a new structure of two yuan in the city, threatening the harmonious development of the city. Migrant workers in cities need to gradually solve their household registration problems, the future direction of the household registration system reform is to focus on small towns, or large cities? The greater the city, the more developed the economy, the more opportunities for employment, and often also the concentration of foreign labor force, then, is it necessary to use the capacity as a reason to limit the entry of foreign labor into the big city? Here, let us discuss three issues: 1. Why should migrant workers go to the city? 2, migrant workers into what kind of city, is a big city or small city, into the east or Midwest? 3, how can migrant workers enter the city in the aspects of ways, paths, and institutional obstacles? First, why should migrant workers go to the city? To absorb surplus rural labor through the growth of industry and services is the main way for the agricultural labor force to increase income. Here, I would like to counter the idea that the way out of the agricultural labor force lies in improving agriculture. The modernization of a country cannot be achieved in the case of an agricultural workforce that accounts for more than 50% of the population. Why do farmers want to go to town? The basic reason, of course, is to increase income. Chinas economic structure is a typical developing two yuan economy, that is, both the backward agricultural sector and the modern urban sector with industry and service as the main sector. The agricultural sector produces the most important productive factor, land, which is hard to change. (Pioneer or reclamation does little to increase the quantity of land). Given the given land,