Geo

• Cities need to have a population of 10 million to qualify as a megacity
• Push factors are factors that make people want to leave a place.
• Pull factors are factors that attract people to move somewhere else.
• Urbanisation is the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas.
• Urbanisation occurs when population shifts from rural areas to urban areas
• What is internal migration?

  The movement of people from one region to another within the same country
• What is the Hukou system?

  It is a system that classifies people as rural or urban.
• China's floating population consists of city residents that hold a rural Hukou status.
• What caused the rapid migration of people from rural to urban areas in China?

  In urban areas there are more jobs, higher wages, better education and healthcare.
• Why is it difficult for rural migrant workers in China to apply for urban hukou status? 

  Rural migrant workers need to have a formal job as well as an official job contract, this was especially hard for them because they usually had lower paid jobs.
• When was the Hukou system introduced?

  In the 1950s
• The Hukou system:

  • enables the government to control people's access to resources such as land
  • enables the government to control internal migration
  • allows authorities to monitor certain groups of people, such as those who oppose the the government
• The ban on rural to urban migration was lifted in 1978
• The floating population accounts for around 16% of China's population.