… We are grateful to him for his central role in the project. We would also like to thank the
organizers and participants of the “Migration and Social Protection in China” Conference (…

… -urban migrants choose destination cities to maximize utilities from consumption and urban
… Second, the Central region, although it has supplied far more migrants than any other region…

… migration in the world occurs in China (Zhang and Song 2003). Many rural–urban migrants
(RUMs) have fueled rapid urban population growth and greatly accelerated the urbanization …

… central government initiated its opening up strategy and economic reforms in 1978 and
remains at a high level. In the first decade of the 21st century, an average of more than 15 million …

… rural-to-urban migrants (… urban residency, especially in large cities (Chan Citation2009; Wu
and Wang Citation2014). In 2015, China’s central government proclaimed that rural migrants …

… The new type urbanization scheme was issued by the central government in 2012, in order
to realise the development of the county and small cities through coaxing rural workers to …

… from urban settlement to urban integration will be a result of the social interaction between
rural–urban migrants and … Since most rural–urban migrants are currently at the phase of urban …

… Since the mid-1980s, migration in China has been economically driven. Residents from
less developed rural regions in western and central China traveled to developed cities and …

… China's recent hukou reform provides opportunities for rural–urban migrants to acquire formal
… Partly as a response to such concerns and criticisms, the central government initiated the …

… goal under a central planning system. Perhaps … China's urbanization and rural to urban
migration have remained a topic of great interest. The difficulties in studying China's urbanization …