Analysis on the Backgrounds and Characteristics of Floating Population in Guangzhou

Floating population plays a vital part in China’s current urbanization and modernization.Studies on floating population have been a hot point for scholars from every discipline.Taking Guangzhou as an example,this paper analyzed the backgrounds of floating population in Guangzhou,which include the favorable geographic locations,the historical heritage of openness,transition of the registration system,the policy of reformation,globalization and spatial integration,territorial relations between Guangzhou and Hong Kong Macao.Then,the characteristics and its evolutionary tendencies of demographic structures during 1978-2007 were discussed.It’s found that the scale of floating population grew rapidly and was unstable,with male population dominating,the age structure being a diamond structure,the unmarried dominated the earlier period and the married,later,the educational level becaming higher,people from outside of Guangdong province taking a larger share,the majority working in manufacture,and finally the amount of foreigner workers increasing.