Migrants to get equal access to social services in cities
February 27, 2012 Category Macro-economy, Weekly
China has pledged to provide equal access to public services for people living in urban areas without local residential permits. Policies and measures on essential public services, including employment assistance, compulsory education and occupational training, will no longer be based on whether one has a permanent residence permit or not. That means many of China’s millions of migrant workers may be formally accepted as urban residents. The country now has more than 200 million rural migrants working in cities. Shanghai had 22.21 million residents at the end of 2010 ― 14.12 million with residency and 8.29 million migrants who lived in the city for more than six months, as well as about 200,000 registered residents who lived elsewhere in the country. In county-level cities, anyone with a legal and stable job and residence, either rented or owned, can apply for a hukou – a permanent residence certificate. In medium-sized cities that are big enough to contain districts, a migrant must have worked there for more than three years with a stable residence before being able to apply. Current hukou practices remain in the four municipalities – Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing – and other major cities, which the notice says must “continue to reasonably control population size”. China’s urban population surpassed the number of rural residents last year, according to official statistics.
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