Why wait and see if the household has changed?

■ The urban-rural dual household registration system has actually been embedded with various systems such as land, employment and social security. Actively and steadily promoting a series of supporting reforms is the only way to deepen household reform.

Recently, the State Council announced the Opinions on Further Promoting the Reform of the Household Registration System, deciding to establish a unified household registration system in urban and rural areas to effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of the agricultural transfer population. This is undoubtedly a major positive for the vast number of migrant workers who are eager to truly integrate into the city.

Cousin has been working in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province for many years. Children stay in their hometown in Jiangxi Province. Old people are empty nest. They are very eager to live and work in the city. I called him to ask when he could settle down locally, but he made it clear that he was not in a hurry and would wait before deciding.

After a detailed chat, I found that my cousin's decision was quite reasonable. At the same time, I felt that it was necessary to coordinate a series of supporting reforms to promote household reform.

The first reason why my cousin is not in a hurry to settle down is to wait for the land to be confirmed and issued. "We have land in our hometown. Even if we can't stay in the city, we still have the capital to settle down." The financial crisis in 2008 made cousin more deeply aware of the importance of land.

Cousin's views on the land also represent the attitude of most farmers. According to a survey conducted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 90% of respondents are unwilling to exchange land for urban hukou. It seems that the reform of the household registration system should proceed smoothly, and the reform of the rural land system should make breakthroughs as soon as possible. Confirming and issuing certificates is conducive to reassuring farmers, endowing farmers with the power to occupy, use and earn contracted land, and carefully and steadily exploring channels to increase farmers 'property income, which is the top priority of the supporting reform of household registration system. If the reform of the land system stagnates, the peasants will be worried and the pace of urbanization will be delayed.

Another reason why my cousin is not anxious is to wait and see how the city's hukou is. If it is just a change of household register, basic public services will remain the same, then what is the big point?

For a long time, China's urban-rural dual household registration management system once caused more than 30 treatment differences between urban and rural household registration. Eliminating these differences and realizing equalization of basic public services is another key to deepening the supporting reform of the household registration system. There is a long way to go.

In order to meet the needs of urbanization of agricultural transferred population, local governments need to increase a series of financial inputs such as urban infrastructure construction and maintenance, public service management, social security, affordable housing, etc. This is the biggest pressure brought to the local government by the household reform, and it is also an important reason for the slow urbanization process of migrant workers in recent years. In response to this problem, the Opinions propose to strengthen the financial security of basic public services, establish a mechanism linking fiscal transfer payments with the urbanization of agricultural transfer population, and put forward pragmatic and positive countermeasures such as "giving priority to solving stocks, orderly guiding increments, and reasonably guiding expectations".

In fact, it is not a temporary effort to fill the gap between rights and welfare between urban and rural household registration. However, the abolition of agricultural hukou actually opened the prologue of the "era of equal rights between urban and rural areas". The direction has been set, things are man-made. Gradually weakening or stripping the welfare treatment attached to household registration, further increasing the intensity of financial transfer payment, narrowing the development gap between regions, cities of different sizes and urban and rural areas, especially giving migrant workers the same treatment, are the focus of the next step of deepening reform.

In fact, the dual household registration system in urban and rural areas has been embedded with various systems such as land, employment and social security. It is not easy to deepen the reform. However, reform is the biggest dividend. Actively and steadily promoting a series of supporting reforms is the only way to deepen household reform and will also provide strong impetus for stabilizing growth and adjusting structure to benefit people's livelihood.