Abstract
Based on the interview survey conducted in Sichuan province in 2005, from the perspectives of sociology and demography, this paper aims to give a comprehensive analysis regarding the impacts of rural population outflow on China’s rural society.
Focusing the household, this study not only reveals the impacts of family members’ outflow on the “left parents” , “left spouse” and “left children” respectively, but also shows the rural family as a whole has also experienced great changes in fulfilling its functions. Furthermore, this study also shows the rural population outflow has been damaging the agricultural activities in these sending villages, and the village as a whole has been witnessing dramatic changes in its physical and social surroundings.
