Migration: Rural-Urban Migration of Newlyweds
Migration – Rural-urban migration of newlyweds
Migration is the physical movement by humans from one region to another over vast distances across geographic barriers or shorter distances from rural areas to more urbanized cities in their own country of residence. In recent years the rate of rural-urban migration in many less economically developed countries such as China has become alarming as more people waft into the urban centres from the rural areas. In particular many young, newlywed couples living in rural provinces such as Henan, find themselves, at least at some point during their family planning, questioning and considering whether to migrate to the more thriving urban cities such as shanghai or to remain in their rural villages. Important factors such as career opportunities, education for their children and cost of living that will be discussed in this paper, all influence both sides of the comparison. Although both rural and urban livings offer great benefits, they both have some number of drawbacks as well. Nevertheless I believe that young newlywed couples living in the rural provinces of Henan have to migrate to urbanized cities such as Shanghai in order to survive and keep up with the rapidly globalising world.
Firstly, for a young newlywed couple, financial stability is one of the most fundamental concerns. Therefore they would seek employment in places which provide a wide range of carrier opportunities which point to a higher rate of employability. Shanghai is well known as the flourishing commercial and financial centre of China that is at the forefront of China's rapid economic development. It has a low unemployment rate of 4.1 percent and has a diversity of jobs in the services, retail, trade and industry, automobiles, electronic and communication, petrochemicals, steel products, equipment assemblies, biomedicine manufacturing, agricultural production, forestry and livestock farming sectors. Hence job opportunities are ample in shanghai.
Migration is the physical movement by humans from one region to another over vast distances across geographic barriers or shorter distances from rural areas to more urbanized cities in their own country of residence. In recent years the rate of rural-urban migration in many less economically developed countries such as China has become alarming as more people waft into the urban centres from the rural areas. In particular many young, newlywed couples living in rural provinces such as Henan, find themselves, at least at some point during their family planning, questioning and considering whether to migrate to the more thriving urban cities such as shanghai or to remain in their rural villages. Important factors such as career opportunities, education for their children and cost of living that will be discussed in this paper, all influence both sides of the comparison. Although both rural and urban livings offer great benefits, they both have some number of drawbacks as well. Nevertheless I believe that young newlywed couples living in the rural provinces of Henan have to migrate to urbanized cities such as Shanghai in order to survive and keep up with the rapidly globalising world.
Firstly, for a young newlywed couple, financial stability is one of the most fundamental concerns. Therefore they would seek employment in places which provide a wide range of carrier opportunities which point to a higher rate of employability. Shanghai is well known as the flourishing commercial and financial centre of China that is at the forefront of China's rapid economic development. It has a low unemployment rate of 4.1 percent and has a diversity of jobs in the services, retail, trade and industry, automobiles, electronic and communication, petrochemicals, steel products, equipment assemblies, biomedicine manufacturing, agricultural production, forestry and livestock farming sectors. Hence job opportunities are ample in shanghai.