The first task of urbanization: citizenization of migrant workers

According to the spirit of the Central Urban work Conference held from December 20 to 21, in the next step to promote urbanization, it is necessary to promote the orderly citizenization of the resident population who are capable of stable employment and life in cities and towns.

It is necessary to strengthen the strategic research on the citizenization of the agricultural transferred population, and comprehensively promote supporting reforms in the fields of land, finance, and education. We will promote a new type of urbanization with people as the core, give full play to this maximum potential to expand domestic demand, and effectively resolve various "urban diseases."

Data obtained by the 21st Century Economic report show that the growth rate of the number of migrant workers going out has turned to zero at the end of the third quarter of this year, indicating that in reality, migrant workers are less willing to go to cities. the reason is that it is difficult for migrant workers to enjoy education, pension, housing and other public services in cities, which may affect the goal of urbanization, which in turn affects the sustainable growth of the economy as a whole.

The new urbanization plan released by the state previously proposed that by 2020, the urbanization rate of the resident population will reach about 60%, and the urbanization rate of the registered population will reach about 45%, which has increased from 52.6% and 35.3% respectively in 2012. The gap between the urbanization rate of the registered population and that of the resident population will be reduced by about 2 percentage points, and efforts will be made to achieve the settlement of about 100 million agricultural migrants and other permanent residents in cities and towns.

The Central Committee proposes to strengthen the study of Peasant Workers' citizenization

The meeting put forward six tasks. That is, respect the law of urban development; co-ordinate the three major structures of space, scale and industry to improve the overall situation of urban work; co-ordinate the three major links of planning, construction and management to improve the systematicness of urban work; and co-ordinate the three major driving forces of reform, science and technology, and culture. improve the sustainability of urban development; co-ordinate the three major layouts of production, life and ecology; co-ordinate the three main bodies of the government, society and citizens to enhance the enthusiasm of all parties to promote urban development.

In terms of strengthening the strategic research on the citizenization of migrant workers, the meeting proposed to comprehensively promote supporting reforms in the fields of land, finance, education, employment, health care, old-age care, and housing security. It is necessary to promote the reform of urban science, technology, culture and many other fields, optimize the ecological chain of innovation and entrepreneurship, make innovation the main driving force of urban development, and release the new momentum of urban development.

In this regard, Ye Tanglin, a researcher at the Megalopolis Research Institute of the Capital University of Economics and Economics, believes that the core is a lot of education, medical, and other services, which should go to small and medium-sized cities.

Many remote areas may not have high-quality teachers, so people with a little more ability still want to study in big cities. Therefore, on the one hand, we should achieve the equality of public services, on the other hand, we should try our best to create jobs in small and medium-sized towns. "but this is a long-term process and it is difficult to solve it immediately in the short term." He said.

Liu Xiangdong, a researcher at the China Center for International Economic Exchange, pointed out that it is still necessary to study some specific measures. "if Langfang has the same education and pension services as Beijing, there must be a lot of people willing to settle there." He said.

Promote the equalization of basic public services for the urban resident population

The above-mentioned central urban work conference also proposed that it is necessary to raise the level of management, strive to build a smart city, start with the implementation of the residence permit system, promote the equalization of basic public services for the urban resident population, strengthen urban public management, comprehensively improve the quality of residents, promote reform and innovation, and provide institutional and institutional guarantee for urban development.

The 21st Century Economic report has learned that the residence permit system currently implemented in some big cities and mega-cities has encountered awkward difficulties. Many permanent residents who do not have local household registration think that most of them are painting cakes.

Xia Dan, an analyst at Bank of Communications, believes that the residence permit system needs to be reformed. In many cities, it is difficult for permanent residents to educate their children, and they need household registration and other requirements. if they have local household registration, even if they do not buy a house, their children can still go to school.

Cultivate a number of urban agglomerations in the central and western regions

The Central Urban work Conference proposed to improve the level of new urbanization and embark on a path of urban development with Chinese characteristics.

To this end, we should cultivate and develop a number of urban agglomerations and regional central cities in the central and western regions, and promote the joint development of border central cities and port cities, so that the broad masses of people in the central and western regions can also share the fruits of urbanization at home.

All cities should combine their resource endowments and location advantages, define the leading industries and characteristic industries, strengthen the industrial cooperation between large, medium and small cities and small towns, and gradually form a development pattern of horizontal dislocation development and vertical division of labor and cooperation.

"at present, the lack of development of small and medium-sized cities is that there is no industry, no industrial association with the core cities, and the layout of the industrial chain." Ye Tanglin said.

Encourage farmers to buy houses in cities to maximize the potential of domestic demand

The Central Urban work Conference is prepared to adopt some reforms to promote a new type of urbanization as the greatest potential of domestic demand.

The meeting pointed out that in order to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and speed up the realization of modernization, we must grasp the "locomotive" of the city and grasp the law of development.

To this end, it is necessary to raise the level of construction, strengthen the construction of underground and above-ground infrastructure in cities, build sponge cities, speed up the transformation of shantytowns and dilapidated houses, and promote the comprehensive renovation of old residential areas in an orderly manner. we will strive to basically complete the renovation of existing urban shantytowns, urban villages and dilapidated houses by 2020, promote urban green development, improve building standards and project quality, and attach great importance to building energy conservation. To improve the level of management, strive to build a smart city, and so on.

The 21st Century Economic report has learned that at present, there are more than 200 million migrant workers living in cities, but the proportion of people who buy houses is only about 1%. If migrant workers settle down and develop in the city, it is estimated that there are several billion to tens of billions of square meters of housing demand for housing, which can greatly promote the elimination of inventory.

Xia Dan, an analyst at the Bank of Communications, believes that the core issue of promoting the citizenization of migrant workers is to solve the problem of farmers' income. The government can give some subsidies or other ways to help migrant workers buy property.

Economic data in November showed that China's real estate investment growth rate was close to zero, which also led to a slowdown in the overall investment growth rate, with the cumulative investment growth rate falling by about 0.5 percentage points each month.

Ye Tanglin, a researcher at the Mega City Research Institute of the Capital University of Economics and Economics, believes that it can also be indemnificatory apartment to promote migrant workers to buy houses in cities, but only if the government has a scientific plan and a large amount of investment in the early stage.