This paper analyses the impacts of the out migrant workers of rural origin on the rural development in China.It develops the arguments between the modernization and dependency explanations of income distribution across different areas.The research is based on some questionnaire surveys in urban and rural China.Structured interviews conducted with households in Beijing(N=493 migrants)and in Sichuan province(N=451 rural households)of China.The data show that more than 70% of the out migrants gave monetary temittances to their rural households.The remittances contribute much more substantially to rural income in China than in other countries.The author argues that the high percentage of remittance in China is due to the Chinese family and cultural tradition.It also shows the negative correlation between the percentage of remittance and the prosperous situation of the migrants’ hometown.The author argues that this is due to the psychological impacts of the urban migrants.
