The Status of Migrants in Cities and Innovations in Social Management

Abstract

From a demographic perspective, a floating population is identified by a change in the place of permanent residence. In China, the official criterion for identifying the floating population is usually linked to hukou due to the existence of the hukou management system. In the 2010, or the 6th, Population Census by the NBS, the floating population referred to the group of people who had left the places where their hukous were registered and lived in places other than the sub-districts, towns or townships, where they were generally considered part of the official population count, for at least half a year; in the Dynamic Floating-population Monitoring and Survey (DFPMS) conducted by the formerly National Population and Family Planning Commission, the floating population referred to the group of people who have left the places where their hukous were registered, migrated between administrative areas at the county/city/district or higher levels and lived in the hostplace for at least 1 month, except for people who were away for business trips, medical care, travel, visits to family members/relatives/friends, active duty, and education at professional schools at the secondary or higher levels. The floating population can also be sub-classified by hukou type into the floating population with rural hukous and those with urban hukous. Migration of rural population into cities and towns is the primary form of human migration in china due to a long-standing imbalance between urban and rural areas as well as a low Urbanization rate. In addition, there is massive human migration among provinces and regions.