TABLE 1.
Size of the Floating Population and Share of the Intra-provincial and Inter-provincial Floating Population by Province, China, 2000 and 2010
2000 | 2010 | |||||
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Province | Total (1,000) | Percent intra-provincial | Percent inter-provincial | Total (1,000) | Percent intra-provincial | Percent inter-provincial |
North | ||||||
Beijing | 2,603 | 5.38 | 94.62 | 8,947 | 21.26 | 78.74 |
Tianjin | 791 | 7.08 | 92.92 | 3,891 | 23.12 | 76.88 |
Hebei | 2,131 | 56.36 | 43.64 | 4,125 | 65.95 | 34.05 |
Shanxi | 1,459 | 54.28 | 45.72 | 3,149 | 70.41 | 29.59 |
Inner Mongolia | 1,773 | 69.09 | 30.91 | 4,520 | 68.05 | 31.95 |
Northeast | ||||||
Liaoning | 2,306 | 54.68 | 45.32 | 5,391 | 66.86 | 33.14 |
Jilin | 945 | 67.30 | 32.70 | 2,029 | 77.50 | 22.49 |
Heilongjiang | 1,794 | 78.43 | 21.57 | 2,813 | 81.99 | 18.01 |
East | ||||||
Shanghai | 4,360 | 28.10 | 71.90 | 11,002 | 18.40 | 81.59 |
Jiangsu | 5,007 | 49.33 | 50.67 | 13,513 | 45.39 | 54.61 |
Zhejiang | 5,426 | 32.01 | 67.99 | 15,272 | 22.58 | 77.42 |
Anhui | 1,184 | 80.57 | 19.43 | 3,611 | 80.13 | 19.87 |
Fujian | 3,807 | 43.66 | 56.34 | 7,836 | 44.95 | 55.05 |
Jiangxi | 1,008 | 74.90 | 25.10 | 2,172 | 72.38 | 27.62 |
Shandong | 2,687 | 61.56 | 38.44 | 6,935 | 69.49 | 30.51 |
Central and south | ||||||
Henan | 2,012 | 76.34 | 23.66 | 4,601 | 87.13 | 12.87 |
Hubei | 2,239 | 72.76 | 27.24 | 4,826 | 78.99 | 21.00 |
Hunan | 1,770 | 80.28 | 19.72 | 3,655 | 80.16 | 19.84 |
Guangdong | 21,054 | 28.45 | 71.55 | 31,324 | 31.37 | 68.63 |
Guangxi | 1,843 | 76.78 | 23.22 | 3,727 | 77.41 | 22.59 |
Hainan | 654 | 41.59 | 58.41 | 1,288 | 54.32 | 45.68 |
Southwest | ||||||
Chongqing | 884 | 54.41 | 45.59 | 2,819 | 66.48 | 33.52 |
Sichuan | 2,748 | 80.49 | 19.51 | 6,870 | 83.57 | 16.43 |
Guizhou | 1,254 | 67.38 | 32.62 | 2,503 | 69.51 | 30.49 |
Yunnan | 2,512 | 53.66 | 46.34 | 3,831 | 67.73 | 32.27 |
Tibet | 151 | 29.14 | 70.86 | 262 | 36.86 | 63.14 |
Northwest | ||||||
Shannxi | 1,041 | 59.08 | 40.92 | 3,272 | 70.22 | 29.78 |
Gansu | 717 | 68.20 | 31.80 | 1,551 | 72.09 | 27.91 |
Qinghai | 308 | 59.74 | 40.26 | 779 | 59.14 | 40.86 |
Ningxia | 367 | 47.68 | 52.32 | 934 | 60.55 | 39.45 |
Xinjiang | 1,917 | 26.40 | 73.60 | 2,986 | 40.01 | 59.99 |
China | 78,752 | 46.14 | 53.86 | 170,614 | 49.67 | 50.33 |
Sources: Data for 2000 are based on Table 7-1 (p.726), PCO (2002); Data for 2010 are based on Table 7-1, p.458-459 and 1/1000 micro-data.