The drawbacks of housing overcrowding characteristic to rural migrants’ life in Beijing.

Chinese government did great contribution in improving the residents’ housing characteristics and was quite successful especially in urban area. However, in the big cities, the negative interrelationships between housing overcrowding characteristic and people’s life still emerge and seriously affect people’s life. In this research, the researcher will investigate the capital city Beijing as the target and to know the situation of housing overcrowding problem, also do some implication to the rural migrants’ life. By the way, some suggestions will be forward in solving the housing overcrowding problem in Beijing among rural migrants. At the end, the Beijing local government should take some necessary actions to carry out the housing policy. In this research, the researcher obtains the data from two types of interviews: rural migrants and government officers. It is also supported by the utilization of secondary data. The findings of this research indicate that majority of the rural migrants endure by the housing overcrowding problem, also this housing problem seriously implies to their regular life in Beijing. Therefore, the Beijing government should provide some necessary assistance to this group people. This paper reports the housing overcrowding problem in Beijing and does the implications to the rural migrants’ life. It also provides some suitable advice to other urban areas in solving the housing overcrowding problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]