Residential Choice Behavior of Return Migrants under County-Level Urbanization

Yaou Zhang is a lecturer in the Department of Environmental Design, College of Art and Media at Sichuan Agricultural University. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Design, with a research focus on population mobility and urbanization. She also holds a master’s degree from Southwest Jiaotong University and has extensive experience in both teaching and academic research.Her work primarily explores tourism planning in the context of urbanization, the characteristics of slow tourism in ancient towns, and strategies for identifying and redesigning traditional village landscapes. She has published related research in various academic journals and continues to advance inquiry in urban planning and landscape design.Her research not only contributes theoretical insights into tourism development amid urbanization but also proposes innovative strategies for the preservation and renewal of traditional villages.Dongsheng Huang is a professor at the School of Architecture and Design, Nanchang University. He is recognized as a Class-D High-Level Talent of Jiangxi Province and a reserve candidate for academic and technical leadership in Sichuan Province. In recent years, he has led two projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China, one project supported by the Ministry of Education's Social Science Foundation, and five other provincial or ministerial-level research projects. He has published two academic monographs and co-authored two additional scholarly books.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Study on the Spatial Selection Intention of Return Migration among Rural Migrant Population in Western China.- Chapter 3. A Study on the Home Purchasing Behavior of Rural Migrant Population in Urban Areas of Out-migration in Western China—An Empirical Analysis Based on Sichuan Province.- Chapter 4. A Study on the Residential Behavior of Returned Rural Migrant Population in Western China.- Chapter 5. Basic Conclusions, Policy Recommendations, Research Limitationsand Prospects.