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Annual Report on Urban Development of China 2013Promoting Universal Coverage of Basic Public Services Among Urban Residents

Annual Report on Urban Development of China 2013: Promoting Universal Coverage of Basic Public... [In 2012, China’s urbanization rate reached 52.57 % but, if we counted only people with urban hukous, this was only 35.29 %; there were 263 million migrant workers in China, where they have already been playing a leading role in urbanization. Nonetheless, governments are still managing applications for new permanent urban residents’ registration, demanded by rural migrant workers, by using the long-established hukou-based public service policies. This has constituted a big obstacle to the citizenization of rural migrant workers in China, caused a great deal of problems with urban management, and is contrary to social justice. In 2013, it was made clear in the Report on the Work of the Government that relevant authorities should accelerate reform of the household registration system and related institutions; that they should register eligible rural workers as permanent urban residents in an orderly manner, “progressively expand the coverage of basic public services in urban areas to include all their permanent residents and create an equitable institutional environment for freedom of movement and for people to live and work in contentment.” Accordingly, in order to protect the rights of migrants and improve the quality of the process of social urbanization in China, the most significant tasks involve investigating the current status of basic public services in Chinese towns and cities, especially the public services provided for potential new permanent migrant worker residents, and exploring methods to expand the coverage of these basic public services in urban areas to all their permanent residents.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Annual Report on Urban Development of China 2013Promoting Universal Coverage of Basic Public Services Among Urban Residents

Part of the Current Chinese Economic Report Series Book Series
Editors: Pan, Jiahua; Wei, Houkai
Wang, Ning; Wang, Yeqiang
Annual Report on Urban Development of China 2013 — Dec 31, 2014
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Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Copyright
© Social Sciences Academic Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
ISBN
978-3-662-46323-9
Pages
237 –253
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-46324-6_10
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Abstract

[In 2012, China’s urbanization rate reached 52.57 % but, if we counted only people with urban hukous, this was only 35.29 %; there were 263 million migrant workers in China, where they have already been playing a leading role in urbanization. Nonetheless, governments are still managing applications for new permanent urban residents’ registration, demanded by rural migrant workers, by using the long-established hukou-based public service policies. This has constituted a big obstacle to the citizenization of rural migrant workers in China, caused a great deal of problems with urban management, and is contrary to social justice. In 2013, it was made clear in the Report on the Work of the Government that relevant authorities should accelerate reform of the household registration system and related institutions; that they should register eligible rural workers as permanent urban residents in an orderly manner, “progressively expand the coverage of basic public services in urban areas to include all their permanent residents and create an equitable institutional environment for freedom of movement and for people to live and work in contentment.” Accordingly, in order to protect the rights of migrants and improve the quality of the process of social urbanization in China, the most significant tasks involve investigating the current status of basic public services in Chinese towns and cities, especially the public services provided for potential new permanent migrant worker residents, and exploring methods to expand the coverage of these basic public services in urban areas to all their permanent residents.]

Published: Dec 31, 2014

Keywords: Migrant Worker; Affordable Housing; Compulsory Education; Relevant Authority; Housing Assistance

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