State Council Report: Fully Lift Restrictions on Household Registration in Small Towns and Small Cities
Release Time:
2013-06-27 18:44
Source:
China News Service
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 26 (Reporter Guo Jinchao, Jia Tianyong) A report submitted by the State Council to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the 26th shows that the national urbanization plan has been drafted into a planning document and is currently being widely solicited for opinions and is being revised and improved.
The third session of the 12th National People's Congress Standing Committee began in Beijing on the same day. One of the day's agendas was to review the State Council's report on urbanization construction work.
The report revealed that by the end of 2010, the National Development and Reform Commission, together with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Land and Resources, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and 14 other departments, initiated the preparation of the urbanization plan. "Based on extensive preliminary research, field investigations, and special seminars, the planning document was drafted. It is currently being widely solicited for opinions and is being revised and improved."
However, the report also pointed out the problem of low quality in China's urbanization, stating that this issue is "becoming increasingly prominent." In response, the report focused on analyzing five aspects of the problem, such as the difficulty for a large number of rural migrant populations to integrate into urban society, the lag in the process of becoming urban residents; urban land urbanization outpacing population urbanization, and the extensive and inefficient use of urban land.
Regarding the issue of "urban diseases," the report believes that currently some cities experience disorderly spatial development, excessive population concentration, emphasis on economic development over environmental protection, focus on urban construction over management services, serious traffic congestion, frequent public safety incidents involving food and drugs, and worsening pollution of air, water, and soil.
In view of the above situation, the report believes that the past development model of industrialization and urbanization relying mainly on high input, high consumption, and high emissions is unsustainable, and "China must take the path of transformation and development focused on improving quality."
The report also mentioned the basic ideas to promote healthy urbanization development. It pointed out that "with population urbanization as the core, urban agglomerations as the main form, comprehensive carrying capacity as support, and institutional and mechanism innovation as guarantee, promoting the unity of industrial development, employment transfer, and population concentration, following a people-centered, intensive and efficient, green and intelligent, and synchronized four-modernization path of new-type urbanization with Chinese characteristics," to comprehensively improve the quality of urbanization.
To promote healthy urbanization development, the report also proposed four major strategic tasks that need to be focused on currently: orderly promotion of the urbanization of rural migrant populations, optimizing urbanization layout and form, and improving urban sustainable development capacity.
Regarding the orderly promotion of the urbanization of rural migrant populations, the report stated that restrictions on household registration in small towns and small cities should be fully lifted, restrictions in medium-sized cities should be lifted in an orderly manner, conditions for household registration in large cities should be gradually relaxed, reasonable conditions for household registration in mega cities should be set, and rural migrant populations who meet the conditions should gradually be converted into urban residents. Accelerate the equalization of basic public services, striving to achieve coverage of compulsory education, employment services, social security, basic medical care, and affordable housing for the urban permanent population.
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