Shanghai unifies residence system
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SHANGHAI is canceling its agricultural hukou to establish a unified permanent residence system for urban and rural areas, the city government said yesterday, becoming the first provincial region on the Chinese mainland to do so.
The move is part of changes to a population and hukou policy that will give out-of-towners permanent residence permits based on a credit system which will take into account their length of stay and contributions to the social security fund, the government said in a document released on its website yesterday.
It has been making efforts in urban-rural integration for some years and currently urban and rural residents enjoy the same pension, unemployment and medical insurances.
Next in line will be education, health and family planning, employment, social security, land, housing and demographic census.
The government said the reform is expected to help the city control its registered population within 25 million by 2020 while attracting the talent the city needs and improving its population structure, the document said.
Currently, out-of-towners are generally eligible to apply for local hukou after working in the city, contributing to the social security fund and paying income tax for seven years, have middle-level professional posts and no criminal records.
Only people making important contributions to the city, working in important industries, holding important posts or investing large amounts of money and creating jobs can enjoy favorable treatment that includes shorter waiting times.
Credits are given to temporary residence permits holders based on various indicators, such as age, education background, professional titles, the industry they work in and the taxes they have paid.
But currently the scores are only used to decide the public services they can enjoy.
Back to hometowns
For example, only those holding more than 120 points can have their children living in Shanghai take the national college entrance exam in the city, otherwise they have to send the teenagers back to hometowns for study and exams as Shanghai has a different syllabus.
Temporary residence permit holders are limited in other areas, such as buying a house, bidding for car plates and qualifying for cost of living subsidies.
The government said it will accelerate work in confirming and registering farmers’ rights to rural land and issue related certificates to ensure their right to rent and operate agricultural land, as well as the right to land to live on.
It will also actively promote reform of the property rights system in the countryside to allow rural people to rent out or subcontract the agricultural land they do not use to others, or exchange their land on legal and voluntary basis.
By the end of last year, 1.1 million people had applied for temporary residence permits in Shanghai, 300,000 of them having 120 points or more.
But only 26,000 of them have acquired Shanghai hukou.
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