Doctoral Students of SSDPP Present at the Themed Annual Conference 2023

From July 19 to 20, 2023, Zhaoyang Tianzheng, a 2021-enrolled doctoral student of SSDPP, attended the 2023 annual conference on the theme of "High-quality Population Development and Chinese Path to Modernization" held by the Chinese Population Society in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. The event focused on the major theoretical and practical issues on supporting Chinese path to modernization with high-quality population development, covering speeches, forum exchanges, and poster displays, and each forum has a moderator and a commentator.

On the afternoon of July 20, 2023, the sub-forum on "Spatial Population and Population Governance" was successfully held. Experts and scholars from Peking University, Renmin University of China, Central University of Finance and Economics, Fudan University, Putian University, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing Normal University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Capital University of Economics and Trade, Shanghai University, and Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences attended and addressed the event. Space is an important dimension of demographic research and an important topic for carrying out population governance, promoting new urbanization construction, and boosting high-quality regional development in the new era. This sub-forum aims to promote the future development of spatial population and population governance.

Zhaoyang Tianzheng gave a keynote speech on "the spatial patterns of intercity mobile population migration in China in recent years" at the sub-forum. Based on Baidu data on the migration during the Spring Festivals of 2022 and 2023, the report analyzes the spatial agglomeration characteristics of current population mobility in China. By combining GIS spatial statistical analysis with social network analysis, it studies the distribution of popular route traffic for population mobility, popular agglomeration cities, the strength of internal and external connections of cities, and the spatial pattern and characteristics of the overall urban network as well, finding that population mobility still shows a trend of further agglomeration towards large cities, with a slight decrease in the cohesion of mega cities and an increase in the attractiveness of strong second tier cities.