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Reforming hukou will unify rights of migrants

中国日报网 2014-07-31 11:01

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Chinese migrant workers living in cities will gradually have full access to schools and hospitals where they work, a significant move to improve social equality between rural and urban residents.

Under guidelines to create a unified household registration system, known as hukou, the dual-household system that has divided people into urban or agricultural households since the 1950s will be phased out. In its place, a system of residence permits will be set up to allow qualified migrants to enjoy urban services.

"The guidelines will play a positive role in accelerating the country's urbanization," said Zhang Yi, a population expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, this will be done by creating attractive conditions for new rural residents to come to urban areas.

The guidelines said basic public services - including education, healthcare, social insurance, employment, senior care and housing - will be expanded to migrants' children.

"It will bring massive opportunities," Zhang said, adding that it will require large government spending on schools, hospitals, roads and housing.

Huang Ming, vice-minister of public security, agreed that the reform will be unprecedented regarding its scale, coverage, measures and the resolution of the central government.

More than 200 million rural migrants are now working in cities and the numbers are increasing, Huang said.

According to a national plan in speeding up urbanization, the country intends to subsidize vocational training for all rural migrants by 2020.

Liu Limin, vice-minister of education, said that in the past three years more than 3 million migrant children have entered kindergartens in cities, and 28 provinces and regions are unveiling or discussing policies to give migrant students access to the college entrance examination.

Besides education, Wang Pei'an, vice-minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said a community-based healthcare system has been established in cities with 8,488 community medical care centers built across the country by the end of 2013.

Questions

1. What system will take the place of hukou?

2. About how many rural migrants are working in Chinese cities?

3. When was the hukou system introduced to China?

Answers

1. A system of residence permits.

2. 200 million.

3. In the 1950s.

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