Abstract:

In China farmers' transformation into urban inhabitants is one of important strategies for building a well-off society in an all-round way and a harmonious socialist society.In general, their transformation into townspeople in the urban suburbs, whether it is active or passive, is carried out under powerful pushes of industrialization, non-agriculturization and urbanization and in the context of the expansion of urban land and the outward focuses of urban reconstruction.If such a process is regarded as an organic system, in reality it has simultaneously three social supporting systems at different levels of macroscope, mediumscope and microscope.It may be said that farmers' transformation into urban inhabitants is realized under social and institutional backgrounds of urban and rural comparative differences and relevant policies, depending on farmers themselves' manpower capital, and through a series of continuous comprehensive operations of social networks.

Key words: farmers' transformation into urban inhabitants, industrialization, urbanization, non-agriculturization