Abstract: Orderly promotion of the permanent transfer of rural labor is a key to the successful implementation of China's rural revitalization strategy. Based on the maximization of social income, a dynamic analysis model of the permanent transfer of rural population is constructed to explore the mechanism of the impact of education input on the permanent transfer of rural labor force in China. The results show that education level is the decisive factor for rural labor to settle in urban areas, and education input has a significant positive impact on the transfer of rural labor; permanent transfer driven by household registration policy instead of by education input, may lead to inefficient urbanization; strengthening education investment, especially rural education investment, is an effective way to drive permanent transfer rural labor under the background of new urbanization. At present, we should actively promote the permanent transfer of rural labor by increasing public education input, reforming higher education admission policy, restraining urban inflation, developing secondary and tertiary industries in urban areas.

Key words: education subsidy, education level, rural labor, permanent transfer, rural vitalization