Abstract: Business immigrants self-employment is an effective way for agricultural transfer population to live in the city. This paper analyzes the ways entering into self-employment of urban business immigrants and its influence factors, based on 668 questionnaires of self-employed entrepreneurs in the four typical cities of Zhejiang province and Jiangsu province. The modes of urban business immigrants into Self-employed business are divided into self-fumble, social network and experience shifting, and on the basis of this classification to discuss the effects of individual characteristics, human capital, social networks and enterprise features to different entering types. The results show that the choice about self-employment types of urban business immigration depends on the social network strongly, meanwhile, it is impacted significantly by the individual characteristics, work experience, the strength of network, network heterogeneity and enterprise feature factors.However, the influence of education lever and social network size to the manner of business immigrants' self-employed is not significant.

Key words: urban business immigrant, self-employment, social network, enterprise feature