Abstract: According to the relative theory about the urban-rural dual structure development, this paper adopts the geographic information system, the exploratory spatial data analysis method and the spatial panel data model to carry out a study of the spatial interactive function and influencing factors of rural residents’ wage income from the perspective of demographic dividend. The results show that rural residents’ wage income has obvious agglomeration characteristics in the spatial overall distribution; from a local point of view, the differences of wage income have some convergence. The demographic dividend, urban residents’ wage income and urbanization rate will have significant impact on rural residents’ wage income. By contrast, the influence of the total investment in fixed assets on rural residents’ wage income is not significant.

Key words: rural residents; wage income; demographic dividend; spatial econometrics