Promoting Local Urbanization by Means of Double Transfer

At the 4th China New urbanization Summit held recently, Gu Shengzhang, member of the standing Committee of the National people's Congress, vice chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee, and vice chairman of the Central Committee of the China National Construction Association, pointed out that in the past, the price of large-scale "migratory bird migration" of migrant workers was 60 million left-behind children and tens of millions of left-behind women and the elderly, and these families paid a heavy price for this. With the help of the "double transfer" thrust characterized by "industrial transfer and labor return", the local urbanization model should be realized.

Gu Shengzhang put forward two concepts of "80% to 90%" on the basis of a large number of investigations on urbanization: on the one hand, the survey found that 80% to 90% of the new generation of farmers are willing to live and work in big cities; on the other hand, the current employment of 80 to 90% of migrant workers in cities is unstable, and it is also difficult for their children to go to school. The differential settlement policy makes it unattractive for some small cities to liberalize household registration, but they face two problems in staying in big cities: one is that housing prices are too high, and the other is that the cost of living is too high to realize the dream of housing and living in peace.

Is it remote transfer or local urbanization? Is it to "make the big city bigger" or "make the small city long"? In this regard, Gu Shengzhong said that there should be both processes. As stated in the government work report, 100 million people have to be settled and 100 million people have to be transferred locally. He pointed out that in the past, the price of large-scale "migratory bird migration" of migrant workers was 60 million left-behind children and tens of millions of left-behind women and elderly people, and these families paid a heavy price for this. After more than 30 years of large-scale remote transfer, we should reflect on the huge cost of such a remote transfer urbanization and better promote local urbanization.

At present, there is a "double transfer" characterized by "industrial transfer and labor return" in China's economy, which promotes the transfer of industry and labor to the central and western regions. The urbanization of "adapting measures to local conditions" and "varies from person to person" should be promoted with the help of the thrust of "double transfer". That is, to give priority to urbanization for people with stable employment and stable housing, so that migrant workers who cannot find happiness in big cities can seek development in small and medium-sized cities near their hometown, and when the industry is transferred, they will have jobs and be with their families nearby.

At the meeting, Gu Shengzhang pointed out that local urbanization must protect the legitimate rights and interests of farmers, especially their land income rights. Last year, the fifth and seventh meetings of the Central leading Group for comprehensively deepening Reform discussed such issues as the circulation of rural land and the entry of collective construction land into the market, and clearly adhered to the separation of rights under the premise of collective ownership of rural land. it is clearly pointed out that there are three bottom lines: no change in the nature of public ownership of land, no breakthrough in the red line of cultivated land, and no damage to farmers' interests.

"the above policy makes it clear that land cannot be privatized, but land can be capitalized." Gu Shengzhong said. He believes that a series of policies such as agricultural land transfer have awakened the sleeping rural land market, which not only enables farmers to earn a certain income through land transfer, but also helps local governments to improve the rural land financing market. inject vitality into the new type of urbanization.