Abstract: Rural labors’ employment out of home is a main method of rural labor transfer. As a nonesuch in developed coastal areas, Jinjiang city has some own characteristics of rural labor employment.Based on the investigation to this city, some aspects, such as the characteristics of employment, the cause of deficiency in rural labors, the trend of employment in the future and countermeasures, were studied. The characteristics ,such as big amount of employment and a structural shortage of rural labor workers etc, had been analyzed. The causes include less possibility of the transfer of rural surplus labor force, industry enlargement and upgrade, employment selection under supply exceeding demand in labor force market. The enlargement of the labor force shortage would be the tend recently and the insufficient supply would be mitigated after technical progress in the long run. The government should take some measures, for example, establishing the perfect employment service system, enlarging training strength, developing labor cooperation. The enterprises should also take actions including improving the treatment of employment and making him or her have a good expectation of employment opportunities, promoting the technical transformation actively.