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Efforts underway on household registration, urbanization

Xinhua, February 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

China is actively advancing household registration system reform and urban agglomeration in its urbanization drive, an official said Thursday.

To help rural people settle in cities, 27 out of 34 provinces, regions and cities as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have made suggestions for reform of the household registration system, said Chen Yajun, a National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) official at a press conference.

Authorities are drawing up detailed measure to allow migrant workers to move to cities and towns with their families.

The country has basically realized integration of urban and rural pension and medical insurance systems, according to Chen.

China has an urban agglomeration plan for the middle reaches of the Yangtze River with more such plans in the pipeline, covering the Yangtze Delta and the northeast regions, among others.

Chen said the NDRC will plan to make clear the key tasks of urbanization in 2016, with transforming migrant workers into registered urban residents as top priority.

In an instruction on the issue, President Xi Jinping said efforts should focus on raising the number of registered urban residents, providing equal public services for all, and making cities more people-friendly, Xi said.

Although 56.1 percent of the population live in cities, only around 40 percent are actually registered, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Most migrant workers, although working and living there, cannot access many public services.

There are more than 277 million migrant workers, accounting for 20 percent of the population. Endi