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Policy Brief 16- Internal Migration in China-Integrating Migration with Urbanization Policies and Hu

24 Jan 2022

In terms of geography, the 2015 mini-census data shows that Guangdong in the south and Shanghai in the east are the major hubs of interprovincial migration, attracting migrants mainly from the central and western regions (figure 2). [...] They aimed to close the urban social benefits gap modestly, by 2 percentage points over the next six years (that is, to bring down the percentage of the migrant population without access to urban social benefits), from 17.3 percent in 2012 (shown in figure 1) to 15 percent in 2020, which was to be a major step in the right direction. [...] Toward a Policy for Integrating Migrants with Development Given the failure of the 2014 initiatives to reduce the percentage of the migrant population without local urban hukou in the past few years, much remains to be done about hukou reform and the integration of migrants in cities and towns. [...] Megacities to open their hukou doors too The current hukou policy stipulated in the 2014 Opinions and recent amendments is to generally “open smaller cities and control the megacities”—that is, while hukou restrictions have been largely lifted in smaller cities and towns, and eased in third- and fourth-tier cities, the restrictions remain strong in cities of over 3 million and especially the first. [...] Access to education for migrant children Among the many measures needed to integrate migrants, the lack of access to education for migrant children in the megacities is critical as it often forces migrant parents to leave their kids in the village, creating split families and a large population of LBC.

Authors

Kam W. Chan

Pages
9
Published in
United States of America