The modernization of Chinese economy is facing the task to urbanize a large surplus population in the rural areas that is the migration of labor from the rural to the urban.

• 中国要实现工业化、现代化，面临的一个基本任务是要把为数众多的农业剩余人口转变为非农人口、城市人口。这个转变的具体表现形式就是乡城劳动力迁移。