Comprehensive Deepening of Reforms in China by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811540004
Publisher: Springer Singapore

5.1.3 The Progress and Characteristics of the Registration System Reform

In recent years, different areas in China have explored ways to reform the residence registration system and have made certain achievements. Many effective measures have provided experience for speeding up the registration system reform at the state level, and have provided directions for conducting the reform and improving relevant policies.

(1) Step-by-step and classification-based reform.

The recent progress of household registration system reform at the state and local levels features a step-by-step and classification-based strategy. Considering the large number of migrant population in China, the registration system reform at the state started with the easier tasks before handling more challenging ones. The reform started in townships and progressive expanded to small and medium-sized cities, large cities and megacities. The restrictions on household registration relocation are relaxed to different degrees in accordance with the different capacities of cities of different sizes. In 2001, the State Council relayed the “Opinions of the Ministry of Public Security on Deepening the Household Registration System Reform in Small Cities and Townships,” which basically allows rural residents living in small cities and townships to obtain permanent urban residency. In 2011, the General Office of the State Council issued the “Notice on Actively and Steadily Promoting the Reform of the Household Registration System,” which provides classification-based household registration transfer policies for county-level cities, towns where the county people’s government is located and other organic towns; cities with subordinate districts (not including directly-administered municipalities, sub-provincial-level cities and other large cities), directly-administered municipalities, sub-provincial-level cities and other large cities, cities and townships with greater pressure on their capacities, and areas in Mid and West China. Based on this, the “Decision” makes classification-based requirements respectively on cities of different sizes: completely lifting restrictions on new residence registration in administrative townships and small cities; relaxing restrictions on new residence registration in medium-sized cities in an orderly manner; laying down appropriate conditions for new residence registration in large cities; and strictly controlling the population size of megacities.

This is also seen in the plans for the household registration system reform in different areas and cities. The plans for reform have different characteristics in different areas due to the differences in economic and social conditions. Yet in general, after the setback for the model of completely lifting restrictions in Zhengzhou’s reform, the reform in all areas follow a step-by-step progressive path. In the reform to unify the urban and rural household registration, the same approach is taken all over the country: starting by eliminating the distinction between “agricultural” and “non-agricultural” household registration, followed by progressive improvement of relevant policies, before truly realizing the unified household registration management when the right time comes. In the reforms of permanent residence registration transfer management, large cities usually take the approach of stricter controls in central districts and relaxed control in the suburban districts and in counties. For example, the plan for household registration reform in Chongqing sets up different degrees of restriction and conditions for household registration, with the strategy

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