Abstract: Under the background of economic globalization, the scale and diversity of international migration are increasing sustainably. International migration has an important influence on the development in both sending and receiving countries, and continues to be one of the most important issues worth researching. The present paper reviews the migration policies in leading immigrants receiving countries, discusses and analyzes the scale, the flow of movements, the composition, as well as the characteristic of emigrants from China, and makes an exploratory attempt to investigate the impact of migration policies in immigrants receiving countries on international migration from China.