What is Zhejiang promoting?, Agricultural population moving to cities and settling down | Farmers | Population
Recently, the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Government issued the Implementation Plan for Promoting the Implementation of the Basic Public Service System in Permanent Residential Areas and Orderly Promoting the Citizenization of Agricultural Transfer Population in Zhejiang Province. Among them, the relaxation of household registration conditions for agricultural migrant workers in Zhejiang has attracted widespread attention. In addition, it is more important to promote the implementation of the system of providing basic public services in permanent residences in the Plan. How to better provide basic public services? What will be the impact of the implementation of the plan? News 1+1: Tonight, connect with Lan Jianping, Vice President of Zhejiang Development Planning Research Institute, to jointly pay attention to: What is Zhejiang promoting when agricultural populations settle in cities?
How does Zhejiang implement the system of providing basic public services in its permanent residence?
Recently, the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Government issued the Implementation Plan for Promoting the Implementation of the Basic Public Service System in Permanent Residential Areas and Orderly Promoting the Citizenization of Agricultural Transfer Population in Zhejiang Province. One very important aspect is to promote the implementation of the system of providing basic public services in permanent residences. Under this framework, on the one hand, Zhejiang proposes to relax the conditions for agricultural migrant workers to settle down, and on the other hand, it proposes to improve the new residence permit system, striving to achieve that all willing and eligible agricultural migrant workers hold residence permits. In the future, more basic public services will be provided to mobile populations through the connection between residence permits and ID cards.
Policies to better enable the urban agricultural population to enjoy basic public services
In 2020, the floating population in Zhejiang was 27.9197 million, and the proportion of floating population in the permanent population was 39.58%. As a province with a large influx of population, in recent years, many parts of Zhejiang have been promoting the sharing of urban benefits among migrant workers. Recently, the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Government issued the "Implementation Plan for Promoting the Implementation of the Basic Public Service System in Permanent Residences and Orderly Promoting the Citizenization of Agricultural Transfer Population", which also proposed many public service guarantee goals for agricultural transfer population. Looking across the country, according to the 2022 monitoring and survey report on migrant workers by the National Bureau of Statistics, the total number of migrant workers in China has reached 295.62 million. Among migrant workers who go out, 70.61 million people move across provinces, and 101.29 million people move within provinces. In the future, how can farmers who settle in cities truly better implement relevant public service guarantees?
The urbanization plan for agricultural transfer population in Zhejiang is more important in providing better basic public service guarantees
Lan Jianping, Vice President of Zhejiang Development Planning Research Institute, stated that in the "Implementation Plan for Promoting the Implementation of the Basic Public Service System in Permanent Residences and Orderly Promoting the Citizenization of Agricultural Transfer Population in Zhejiang Province", the most core group is the agricultural transfer population. A very realistic situation is that at present, there are many floating population in cities with registered residence registration in rural areas, but working in cities. Among them, those who live in cities for more than half a year are called agricultural transfer population. So, how can a large number of agricultural migrant workers receive better and equal basic public services? This document is the most concerned issue. Through the issuance of this document, it is necessary to ensure that a large number of agricultural migrant workers receive the best protection and services during their urban work period.
What to do with rural residents settling in cities and homesteads?
Lan Jianping, Vice President of Zhejiang Development Planning and Research Institute: Regarding the issues of rural land contracting rights, homestead land use rights, and collective income distribution rights that everyone is concerned about, the "Implementation Plan for Promoting the Implementation of the Basic Public Service System for Permanent Residential Land in Zhejiang Province and Orderly Promoting the Citizenization of Agricultural Transfer Population" proposes to protect the rural land contracting rights, homestead land use rights, and collective income distribution rights of farmers who settle in cities in accordance with the law, and not to use the withdrawal of the above rights as a condition for farmers to settle in cities. That is to say, these three rights are not linked to whether or not to settle down. If you are willing to settle down, these three rights are still yours. So for the agricultural migrant population, if you think that settling in a city is a good path, you can choose to settle down without worrying about these three rights. You are unwilling to settle down, of course, these three rights are already there, so this is very clear, and it is also clearly expressed in this document.
How can Zhejiang ensure the continuity of public services for the agricultural migrant population moving in different cities?
Lan Jianping, Vice President of Zhejiang Development Planning Research Institute: How can we help agricultural migrant workers solve policy continuity issues caused by job changes in different regions and cities? One important aspect of the "Implementation Plan for Promoting the Implementation of the Basic Public Service System in Permanent Residences and Orderly Promoting the Citizenization of Agricultural Transfer Population in Zhejiang Province" is to establish a unified "provincial-level commonality+city/county individuality" point system throughout the province, with provincial-level commonality index points being universal throughout the province. For example, if a person used to work in Wenzhou, then after arriving in Ningbo, the points they had accumulated were still valid. Through top-level design, we aim to better address the policy continuity issues faced by agricultural migrant populations in different cities, such as their children's education. This plan has a very clear top-level institutional design for this.
Why does Zhejiang emphasize electronic residence permits in promoting the urbanization of agricultural migrant populations?
Lan Jianping, Vice President of Zhejiang Development Planning Research Institute: We are now in a digital society, in the era of the internet. Which is more convenient, a physical residence permit or an electronic residence permit placed on a mobile phone? Obviously, we don't often carry our residence permit with us, but we always bring our phones when we go out. So in the digital age, electronic residence permits are an important label for agricultural migrant populations, and we need to ensure that their various rights can adapt to various usage scenarios in this era. Make it the most convenient and reassuring for them to use in various scenes in the city, with a strong sense of experience.
Zhejiang promotes the cumulative mutual recognition of the admittance years of registered residence within the province and gradually expands to the Yangtze River Delta region
Lan Jianping, Vice President of Zhejiang Development Planning Research Institute: The integration of the Yangtze River Delta is a very important national strategy for us, and Zhejiang Province is actively promoting its integration into the Yangtze River Delta. In the process of integrating the Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, and other provinces have some good practices in the urbanization of agricultural transfer population. So how to promote integration in the policy-making process among different provinces and cities? For example, from the perspective of the points system, if the various points systems in Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang provinces can recognize each other, it is a real and integrated institutional supply. So from this document in Zhejiang, we have also made some specific top-level design requirements in this regard. In the future, according to the requirements of the national strategy, one city and three provinces will be able to fully adapt to the trend of integration in various aspects. One of the main themes in this document is the issue of urbanization of our agricultural migrant population. It is a practical measure to implement the major strategy of integrating the Yangtze River Delta by taking proactive measures in various aspects between one city and three provinces in an orderly manner, which can better adapt to the trend of integration in the Yangtze River Delta.
