新生代农民工的本质特征是社会结构变化的规定性。在社会结构理论视野下的新生代农民工,具有城乡结构政策下的城市适应、科教兴国理念下的素质提升和社会主义市场经济体制完善下的自由发展等三个方面的本质特征,在人口结构、社会空间结构、职业结构和社会地位结构等四个主要方面发生了较大变化,表现出进入城市社会结构目标、成本、空间分布和制度调控下青年知识分子反向流动长期化等发展趋势。 The nature of the new generation of migrant workers is the regulation of social structure changes. The new generation of migrant workers in the perspective of social structure theory has the essential characteristics of three aspects under the urban and rural structural policies of urban adaptation, under the concept of rejuvenating the country through science and education and the free development under the socialist market economic system. In terms of population structure Social space structure, occupational structure and structure of social status have undergone major changes, showing the development trend of entering urban social structure, cost, spatial distribution and the long-term reverse flow of young intellectuals under the regulation of the system.