Recently, the official website of the national development and Reform Commission issued the notice of "key tasks of new urbanization construction in 2019" (hereinafter referred to as "tasks"). According to the task, in accordance with the principle of respecting will and independent choice, focusing on agricultural population transfer, taking into account graduates from universities and Vocational Colleges (Technical Colleges) and inter city employment transfer personnel, we will increase efforts to promote the settlement of non registered population in cities, and promote the equal access of permanent residents to basic public services. So, what are the benefits of this policy for migrant workers?
The task proposes to actively promote the settlement of agricultural transfer population who have been employed in cities and towns. We will continue to strengthen the reform of the household registration system. On the basis of the cancellation of the restrictions on the settlement of small and medium-sized cities and towns with a permanent population of less than 1 million in the former urban area, the restrictions on the settlement of type II large cities with a permanent population of 1-3 million in the urban area should be eliminated in an all-round way; the restrictions on the settlement of key groups in type I large cities with a permanent population of 3-5 million in the urban area should be fully relaxed and relaxed System. Megacities should adjust and improve the policy of integral settlement, greatly increase the scale of settlement, simplify integral projects, and ensure that the number of years of social security payment and the number of years of residence account for the main proportion.
For super large cities, the notice points out that we need to adjust and improve the settlement policy of points, greatly increase the scale of settlement, simplify the points projects, and ensure that the number of years of social security payment and the number of years of residence account for the main proportion. The urban government should explore and adopt differentiated and precise settlement policies, and actively promote the settlement of the rural poor people who establish the file and establish the card. Permanent residents of rental housing are allowed to settle in urban public accounts. The main responsibility of local government shall be compacted, and supervision, monitoring and evaluation shall be strengthened.
Over 10 million permanent residents are Megacities
In 2016, the general office of the State Council issued the plan to promote the settlement of 100 million non registered population in cities. It was pointed out that during the 13th Five Year Plan period, barriers to the migration of registered permanent residence between urban and rural areas accelerated to break down, supporting policy systems further improved, the urbanization rate of registered permanent residence increased by more than 1 percentage point per year, and the average number of transferred permanent residence was more than 13 million per year. By 2020, the urbanization rate of the national household registration population will increase to 45%, and the gap between the urbanization rate of the household registration population and the urbanization rate of the permanent population in each region will be more than 2 percentage points smaller than that in 2013.
According to the notice on adjusting the standard of city scale division (GF 2014 No. 51 document) issued by the State Council in November 2014, Chinese cities are divided into five standards:
(1) Mega City: the permanent population of urban area is more than 10 million;
(2) Megacities: 5-10 million permanent residents in urban areas;
(3) Big cities: cities with a permanent population of 1-5 million, among which cities with a population of more than 3 million but less than 5 million are type I cities, and cities with a population of more than 1 million but less than 3 million are type II cities;
(4) Medium sized cities: 500000-1 million permanent residents in urban areas;
(5) Small cities: cities with a permanent population of less than 500000, among which cities with a population of more than 200000 but less than 500000 are type I small cities, and cities with a population of less than 200000 are type II small cities.