Study on Population Migration Characteristics in Mainland China and Its Applications to Decision-making for SARS Control
中国内地人口流动空间规律研究及其在SARS控制宏观决策中的应用

This paper introduces the study for population migration in mainland China and its applications to SARS control. This paper analyzes following issues by using Geographic Information System, (1)the characteristics of immigratory population and migratory population in cities,(2)inflow spatial features for migrant workers in Beijing and Guangdong respectively, (3)situation prediction for migrant workers reflunce to Beijing, and (4)spatiallg distributing features for SARS along traffic lines. According to above studies, some elementary information can be given for SARS control decision-making. (1)The cities, where immigratory population are more than or less than migratory population and the situation along the traffic line can be pointed out here, and how to take measures to cut off the disease of spreading in these cities is obvious;(2)The study on migrant workers can provide some advise to the rural SARS control measures, such as quarantine measures;(3)According to phenological statistic and some raw data for migrant workers, some predictions for the rush hour of migrant workers, who inflow Beijing again refluence can be given roughly.