Sustainable Development of Urbanization: From the Perspective of Social Security and Social Attitude for Migration

Yushi Zhang, Tianhang Jiang, Jun Sun, Zitian Fu and Yanfeng Yu ()
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Yushi Zhang: School of Marxism, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China
Tianhang Jiang: School of Management, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China
Jun Sun: School of Management, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China
Zitian Fu: School of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 625014, China
Yanfeng Yu: Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanchang 330200, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 17, 1-15

Abstract: At present, many developing countries around the world are experiencing urbanization, and China has the largest scale of urbanization. The current literature mainly focuses on the relationship between economic factors, environmental factors and urbanization, ignoring the human factors. In fact, whether sufficient social security can be provided to solve people’s worries, as well as people’s social attitudes, has an important impact on their migration from rural areas to urban areas. By using the China General Social Survey (CGSS) 2018 data and constructing a binary logistic model, this paper studies the impact of social security on migration from rural areas to urban areas, as well as the mediating effects of people’s social attitudes. The results reveal that: (1) Social security has a significant positive effect on migration from rural areas to urban areas. (2) The improvement of the sense of fairness, happiness and security is conducive to the integration willingness and identity of the rural population and promotes urbanization. Therefore, social attitude plays an important mediating role. According to our study, policymakers need to consider how to build a suitable social security system and make rural residents feel safe and happy, so as to promote the sustainable development of urbanization.

Keywords: social security; agricultural transfer population; citizenization; social attitude (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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