Abstract: Nowadays thousands of thousands of rural people are migrating all over the China. A special migration wave that has not yet attracted enough attention is that, besides rural-city migration, rural-rural migration has come into view as well. More precisely, when one group has given up their traditional living style and attempted to find a new life by immigrating into the urban area, another group has chosen to immigrate into the village and cultivate the land that the former has left behind. This migration has been named as Hierarchy of Migration.

Key words: hierarchy of migration, rural population, population migration