An Analysis of The Impact of Migrant Workers’ Returning Entrepreneurship Behavior on Rural Revitalization
ZHU Jiguang
School of Economics / Collaborative Innovation Center of Urban-Rural Coordinated Development / Academician Laboratory for Urban and Rural Spatial Data Mining,Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou 450046, China
Abstract Based on the data of Chinese household tracking survey from 2014 to 2018, this paper uses the fixed effect model to investigate the impact of migrant workers returning to their hometown to start their own businesses on rural revitalization. The purpose of is to clarify the logical relationship between migrant workers returning to their hometown to start their own businesses and rural revitalization and provide reference for the implementation of rural revitalization strategy. The are following findings: (1) The return of migrant workers to their hometowns to start their own businesses has a significant promoting effect on rural revitalization in general, and can add new impetus to rural revitalization; (2) Migrant workers returning to their hometowns to start their own businesses can change the original industrial structure and traditional development mode of rural areas, provide financial support for rural ecological livable, effectively improve rural governance capacity, and achieve the goal of rural residents’ material and spiritual well-being; (3) There are regional differences in the impact of migrant workers’ entrepreneurial behavior on rural revitalization. The entrepreneurial behavior of migrant workers returning to their hometown in the eastern, central and western regions has a promoting effect on rural revitalization, while the return of migrant workers in Northeast China has no significant impact on rural revitalization because of its small scale. Based on the above conclusion, this paper puts forward some suggestions, such as optimizing the external environment of returning home to start a business, perfecting the policy of helping, strengthening the training of professional skills, and formulating the policy of returning home to start a business according to local conditions.
ZHU Jiguang. An Analysis of The Impact of Migrant Workers’ Returning Entrepreneurship Behavior on Rural Revitalization. Economic Survey, 2023, 40(1): 068.
2023, Vol. 40 
