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| GRADUATES' CHOICES OF RENTING LOCATION——A Case Study of Fuzhou |
| WU Shuang-xia, QI Xin-hua, LUO Dong-shen |
| College of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China |
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Abstract Graduates' renting has recently become a social focus. Based on interview-investigation and questionnaire-investigation, the paper has a survey on graduates' choice of renting location in four districts: Gulou, Taijiang, Cangshan and Jin'an of Fuzhou city from three levels: macro, medium and micro. The three levels mean choices in different space units: districts, communities and apartments. By processing the data and analyzing, the result shows that: as rational economic men, the graduates hope to obtain the biggest benefit at the least cost on their renting location choices; for different level, they show different choices and requirements. From the macro level, about 47% of respondents prefer to rent in Gulou district, Taijiang and Cangshan take the second place about 12% and 13%; only 7% of them chose Jin'an district. Moreover about 21% of the respondents have no significant preference. It's location characteristic manifests that their choices accord with different advantages of the four districts, which meet the requirements of different graduates; most of them are satisfied with their residential districts, so they have more attraction for graduates' re-selection. From the medium level, the majority of graduates hope to live where are near their working places and the traffic is convenient. Compared with other districts, about 60, 38, 40, 55% of the whose workplaces are in Gulou, Taijang, Jin'an and Cangshan districts chose their working places as their renting location. From the micro level, the graduates prefer to live in the apartments where are safe, rooms are equipped with washroom. 80%of the female respondents hope to live in a safe living environment. It can be found that for a big part of graduates, they have low demand for living conditions. At the end of paper, it puts forword that there are so many influent factors when grauduates make renting location choice, such as rents, gender, marital status and so on, all of them are worthy of further researches.
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Received: 07 July 2011
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2012, Vol. 27 
