The Comparative Study on Fertility Intention between Floating Population and Local Residents in China----Based on Beijing’s Survey

Based on the survey data that the Beijing population research Institute conducted in 2008 and 2011 in Beijing, this study made a comparative research on fertility intention between floating population and local residents, with regard to ideal number of children, gender preference and influence factors. The research results show that both of floating population and local residents show low intentions in ideal number of children, low probability on having a second child and no son preference. Meanwhile, the study demonstrated that it is social-economic factor not family planning policy more influential on the childbearing behavior. And more and more families voluntarily choose bearing one-child. Based on the findings, this paper draws the conclusion that with rapid modernization and urbanization in China, the fertility intension has been greatly weakened and Chinese