In the present study the authors discuss some new characteristics of floating and transformation of rural labour forces in China, and analyze the reasons for its emergence; then point out that the urbanization away from home has become the main melody of Chinese urbanization in the early days of the 21st century.

The impact of international trade on the urban employment of our country is represented in three aspects,i.

The cointegration analysis indicates that the non-agricultural employment promotes the urban employment clearly but there is not the phenomenon that many rural people transfer to the urban areas before 1978;after 1978,the growth in urban employment falls behind the growth in non-agricultural employment greatly,and there is not clearly Granger causality between them.

But, the urbanization backwardness is leading to a stagnation of employment amount and a pressure of urban employment.

Along with our country s economic system reform and the increase of economic structure adjustment, the contradictions of the town employment increasingly stand out.

Our country began to construct on the socialistic industrialization in the period of the first five-year plan, and all kinds of policies came into being in this period including the policy on town employment, which remained effective until the reform and opening-up.