ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the government policy regarding urbanization, factors affecting peasants moving to urban areas, and their attitudes toward urban residence in order to explore the impact of China’s rapid urbanization on rural clan communities entering the twenty-first century. China’s urbanization is a long process. Since 2013, the government has carried out a series of measures to encourage peasants, especially migrant workers, to settle down in cities permanently. However, a series of factors, including new rural development, deteriorating urban ecological environments, and the increasing value of land, has discouraged their willingness for urban settlement. More and more peasants have returned to home villages after 2011.
