自从政府放松了农民的户籍管理,把劳动力的流动部分交由市场管理以后,大量的农村剩余劳动力开始向城市转移,于是就出现了民工潮。然而,近一两年,尽管农村剩余劳动力仍然在增加,但是许多企业特别是东部地区却出现“劳动力短缺、招不到人”的现象,即民工荒。笔者针对出现的这两种现象提出了自己的一些看法。 Ever since the government relaxed the household registration management of peasants and handed over part of labor flow to market management, a large amount of rural surplus labor began to migrate to the cities. As a result, there was a surge of migrant workers. However, in the past year or two, although the surplus rural labor force is still on the increase, many enterprises, especially the eastern region, experience the phenomenon of “shortage of labor and lack of access to people”, namely, shortage of migrant workers. The author presents some of his own views on these two phenomena.