The Sustainable Livelihoods Research of Reservoir Resettlement in the Upper Reaches of the Yellow River Based on the Development of Human Capital

Abstract

With the exploitation of the Yellow River reservoir, the number of reservoir resettlement is gradually increasing, and the sustainable livelihood of immigrants is becoming more and more important. The sustainable livelihoods resettlement is the goal of the new period, and it is the inevitable requirement to take duties and guarantee immigrants rights and realize the economic and social development, but only the human capital can manage the other capital, and it has knowledge and skills to use natural capital and physical capital and other livelihood capital. We will analyze the problems that the reservoir immigrates’ sustainable livelihoods with support of human capital on the upper of the Yellow River located in Qinghai section through the literature and statistical yearbook, and put forward the suggestions on the development of human capital: to ensure the basic education, innovate the education mode, improve the skill quality and increase government investment. I hope that these suggestions can help the Yellow River reservoir resettlement to achieve the goal of sustainable livelihoods, and promoting the leapfrog development of social economy and achieving the goal of the long period of stability of society.