- Research on the Migrant Personnel Flow’s Influence on the Urban Planning: in the Case Study of Beijing and Xinyang City   1148 kb by    Zhou, Yajie & Wang, Tinglin | zyjflora@126.com    Short Outline China’s migrant personnel flow will have a significant influence on both the migrant destination city and the home city. This paper takes Beijing with a large number of immigrants and Xinyang with a large outflow of population as the research object, to study the migrant personnel flow’s impact on urban planning. Abstract China is in a period of rapid development of urbanization. Large quantities of people from less-developed regions in Midwest China flow to eastern developed regions, especially megacities such as Beijing and Shanghai, for work. But due to the shifting of China[simplequote]s economic center from the eastern coastal areas to the Midwest, the trend that migrant workers return to their home city is becoming more and more significant. This migrant personnel flow will have a significant influence on both the migrant destination city and the home city. For the destination city, to meet migrant workers[simplequote] demands for housing, medical care and children[simplequote]s education is the key to avoid Residential Segregation and social isolation. For the home city, personnel flow also put forward new requirements for urban planning. Xinyang city is in Henan Province which is a large labor-exporting province, it has more than 2 million migrant workers, mostly working in Beijing and Shanghai. The author has participated in the Assessment of the Master Plan of Beijing City project (2011) and the Beijing 2049 research project (2010), and now is compiling the Master Plan of Xinyang City. So,on the basis of the above projcts, this paper takes Beijing and Xinyang as the research object, to study the migrant personnel flow[simplequote]s impact on urban planning. The research steps are as follows. Firstly, the author sended out questionnaires to the Xinyang migrant workers in Beijing to investigate their working and living conditions and their willingness of returning home. Secondly, the author did statistical analysis of retrieved questionnaires using SPSS software, and analyzed the living space of migrant workers both in Beijing and in Xinyang using GIS software, to find out the characteristics and problems of the spatial distribution. The analysis shows that migrant workers in Beijing are mostly living in the urban fringe with poor living conditions and public service facilities, and the residential segregation is getting serious. Meanwhile, because of the changing economic situation in China, more and more migrant workers intend to return to their hometown Xinyang to seek better job opportunities or start their own business, therefore, Xinyang is required to provide suitable jobs, housing and public services for them accordingly. Based on the analysis, we puts forward suggestions for the living space planning of the migrant workers in cities with large floating population such as Beijing: government should provide affordable housing and good public services facilities, control the scale of residential areas, and create communally intercourse space, so as to promote migrant workers to better integrate into city life. And furthermore, we also give some advice on the urban planning of Xinyang with large outflow of population. According to the working and living needs of returned migrant workers, some advices are proposed for Xinyang on industrial type, living space type, and public service facilities. This research is applicable to cities with large number of immigrants like Beijing and to cities with large outflow of population like Xinyang. Keywords migrant personnel planning Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper