The correlations between county economy and rural surplus labor —Taking CangZhou City of Hebei Province as example

Abstract

Being as a typical agricultural city of Hebei Province, Cangzhou City is bearing large employment pressure from rural surplus labor. So how to solve rural surplus labor becomes the key problem. Some experiences show that county economy can enhance the level of the transfer of rural surplus labor, which means there is an obvious correlation between them. Therefore based on the related literature at home and abroad, the paper makes an empirical study on the relationship between county economy and rural surplus labor by correlation and regression analysis. Results show that there is an obvious correlation between them, namely county economy offers employment opportunity to rural labor and increases the peasants' income. Meanwhile, the transformation of surplus rural labor promotes county economy development. Finally, the paper puts forward some feasibility suggestions and reference to various government functional departments and the academia.