Advisers urge more help for 5m living unofficially in city
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MORE than 5 million people are living unofficially in Shanghai, according to new figures.
Of some 11 million people from other areas living in the city, 5.37 million do not have residence certificates, said the local public security bureau.
While locals and migrants with residence certificates are entitled to health benefits and education services, this group are not and many live and work in the city’s peripheries.
More housing and adjustments to the city industrial structure are required to tackle this problem, said deputy directors of the bureau Jiang Xianfa and Ni Jianyu, and former deputy director Wu Yan’an.
The directors, who are all local political advisers, were detailing suggestions for the new round of urbanization work.
By the end of 2013, Shanghai’s population reached 24.15 million, according to the Shanghai Statistics Bureau.
This figure includes locals, incomers with residence certificates and other migrants who have lived in the city for more than six months.
Of the city’s total population of out-of-towners, only 10 percent are college graduates, the officials said.
Some 55,000 migrant families run unlicensed businesses — 85 percent of all such businesses in the city, according to the industrial and commercial administrative department.
These include, eateries, stalls and recycling businesses.
The employment status of more than 4 million incomers are unknown — 42 percent of the out-of-town workforce.
To address these problems, Shanghai should adjust its industrial structure to weed out low-value-added industries, said the advisers.
It must attract highly skilled workers and urge migrant people to get the skills to find employment in local industries.
The city must also meet the housing needs of migrant workers, by providing public housing and dormitories, and consider subsidies for employers who offer subsidized accommodation for out-of-town workers, the advisers added.
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