由于三线工厂的建设而产生的以人口大规模迁移为基本特征的文化传播与文化改造,是移民外来文化逐步土著化过程的一个重要例证。"厂文化"具有以下三个方面的特点:文化孤岛特征;厂际文化差异;厂内文化差异。从"厂文化"的特点可以看出"厂文化"的发展趋势必然是最终完成土著化。虽然"文化惯性"的存在在一定程度上延缓了土著化的过程,但代际之间的文化遗失和在交流中出现的文化趋同所形成的合力决定了这一结果不可逆转。

The immigration initiated by the construction of the third line factories has led to some special cultural transportations and reforms, which now is an important progress of cultural autochthonism of the immigrants. The immigrants of the factory culture are some kind of political immigrants and the structure of the immigrants had to meet the needs of the third line's construction. The characters of the immigration lead to three main traits as following:1)Factory cultures are isolated from other kinds of cultures. Based on the cultural isolation between different factories and the limited communications with the local culture for each third line factory, the factory culture shows the trait of isolation. 2)Factory cultures mean some differences between different factories in the third line area. The main differences depend on the diversities among these factories, which come from the cultural regions of the move-out areas. 3)Factory cultures had some inner-diversities within each factory, too. Because the staffs of the factory come from different cultural regions just as the situations within each factory, it shows a new characteristic. But actually this diversity exists more between different generations and it has a close relationship with the progress of the mergence with the local cultures. Based on the analysis of the characteristics of the factory cultures we can draw a conclusion that the factory cultures are sure to inosculate to the local culture during the progress of culture mergence. Moreover, in the 1990s, new immigrations initiated by the government appear because of special policies and economic situations. Most of the resettlers are local people, which speeds factory cultures becoming indigenous.