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| THE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ON “ENERGY” SPREAD BEHAVIOR OF RETURNEES IN THEIR HOMETOWN BASED ON MOLECULE TRANSITION REACTION——A Case Study of Returnees in Gushi County in Henan Province |
| LI Xiao-jian1,3, SHI Hui-na2 |
1. Institute of Regional Sustainable development, Henan University of Finance and Economics, Zhengzhou 450002, China;
2. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100102, China;
3. Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development/College of Environment and Planning,, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China |
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Abstract The course that individuals in rural areas flow into urban areas to earn money, and then come back to their hometowns to run their business in a proper occasion has great analogy with that of energy transfer in molecule transition reaction of physics. Based on this, the paper divides the course of returnees' business development in their hometown into two stages:the "energy" accumulating in urban areas and the "energy" spread effect in rural areas. According to the data from Gushi, the largest county with population and outgoing laborers in Henan Province, the conclusions are drawn as follows:1) the "energy" that returnees obtained is closely related to their working experiences in cities; 2) human capital spatially spreads out by contact transfer and jumping transfer. The spread course is along with the industrial chain networks; 3) the spread course of social capital confronts many uncertainties; 4) the "energy" spread changes parts of local rural households' traditionally productive and living style to more market-oriented one; 5) the "energy" spread drives more local people who work in urban areas to return home, accelerating local economy linkage to globe production chains and strengthening the relationship of Gushi County to the outside world, and playing a significant role in developing county-level economy.
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Received: 30 May 2008
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2009, Vol. 24 
