What does urbanization of agricultural migrant population mean? How to accelerate the urbanization of my country’s agricultural migrant population?

The Ministry of Finance has issued a bonus for the urbanization of rural migrant population, stating that the bonus funds will be used to enhance the financial guarantee capacity of various regions in implementing the policy of urbanization of rural migrant population. So what does urbanization of rural migrant population mean? How to accelerate the urbanization of my country’s agricultural migrant population?

1. What does the urbanization of agricultural migrant population mean?

The urbanization of rural migrant population means that rural migrant population, on the basis of achieving occupational transformation, obtains social identity and rights equal to those of urban residents, can enjoy urban public resources and social welfare fairly and justly, fully participates in political, economic, social and cultural life, and achieves economic foothold, social acceptance, identity recognition and cultural integration.

1. Does the urbanization of agricultural migrant population mean the transformation from farmers to non-farmers?

The urbanization of rural migrant population is the transformation from rural to non-rural, but it is not a simple change of household registration, nor is it a simple issue of orderly population flow. Instead, it is a system and mechanism that supports the transformation of life scenes from rural to urban areas. It promotes the orderly urbanization of permanent residents who are capable of stable employment and life in cities and towns. This is now the primary task of new urbanization.

2. How many agricultural migrant workers have been transferred since the 13th Five-Year Plan?

Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, more than 100 million rural migrant workers have moved to cities, of which more than 7 million rural migrant workers have settled in cities in Shandong during the period. By 2021, the urbanization rate of my country's permanent population will reach 64.72%, and the urbanization rate of registered population will increase to 46.7%, an increase of 1.3 percentage points over the previous year, which is 0.83 percentage points higher than the increase in the urbanization rate of the permanent population.

2. How to accelerate the urbanization of my country’s agricultural migrant population?

1. Continue to deepen the reform of the household registration system

Smooth the channels for agricultural migrant workers to settle in cities with their families. Cities that implement the points-based settlement policy must ensure that the scores for years of social security payments and years of residence account for the majority.

2. Promote equalization of basic public services in cities and towns

Promote equalization of basic public services in urban areas, ensure that migrant workers' children have equal access to compulsory education, and focus on expanding insurance coverage with the new generation of migrant workers as the focus.

3. Strengthen employment services and skills training for migrant workers

Strengthen employment services and skills training for migrant workers, and carry out subsidized training for 6 million migrant workers.

4. Improve the supporting policy system

Further increase the central government’s support for urbanization incentive funds, promote provincial-level finances to establish urbanization incentive funds, and focus on supporting cities that absorb a large number of cross-city agricultural migrant workers.

The above is an introduction to the meaning of urbanization of agricultural migrant population and how to accelerate the urbanization of agricultural migrant population in my country. I hope it will be helpful to everyone.