Xiamen’s latest settlement policy in 2022: Will Xiamen cancel restrictions on settlement?

The People's Government of Xiamen City issued a notice on deepening the reform of the household registration system and improving the household registration migration policy, which made relevant improvements to the household registration migration policy. So what is the latest policy for settling in Xiamen in 2022? Xiamen cancels restrictions on settling down?

1. What is the latest policy for settling in Xiamen in 2022?

Xiamen’s latest settlement policy in 2022: Optimization of some settlement policies

(1) Advanced model figures, high-level talents and high-skilled talents who are employed in this city or have a legal and stable residence can settle in this city, and their spouses and minor children can move with them.

(2) In addition to the existing people who have been awarded the honorary title of model worker at the municipal level or above and have performed heroic acts, those who have been awarded the honorary title of model worker at the district level and the honorary title of heroic acts by the district committee and district government can transfer their household registration to the corresponding district, and their spouses and minor children can move with them.

(3) Full-time college graduates who are employed in this city; full-time undergraduate and above graduates who are legally and stably employed in this city and are more than 5 years away from the statutory retirement age; part-time master's degree graduates who are legally and stably employed in this city and are more than 10 years away from the statutory retirement age; part-time doctoral degree graduates who are legally and stably employed in this city and are more than 5 years away from the statutory retirement age. The above-mentioned persons can settle in the city after confirmation by the municipal human resources and social security department, and their spouses and minor children can move with them.

(4) The spouses and minor children of all types of talents employed or recruited by functional departments such as organization, human resources and social security, and education, or introduced by competent departments of industry and information technology, science and technology, and commerce, may move with them.

(5) Optimize the settlement system by removing restrictions such as the length of time required to settle in Xiamen.

Xiamen’s latest settlement policy for 2022 Part 2: Promoting employment and settlement in Jimei District, Haicang District, Tong’an District and Xiang’an District

(1) By lowering the requirements for academic qualifications, age limits and social security payment periods, we will attract part-time undergraduate graduates, full-time college graduates and technical school graduates to settle outside the island, thereby preparing a talent pool for industrial development.

(2) To attract key employees of enterprises to settle outside the island. Those who have worked for the same enterprise for three consecutive years and have paid social insurance for more than three consecutive years (excluding supplementary payments) in the enterprise and have renewed their labor contracts for more than three years may be settled in Jimei District, Haicang District, Tong'an District, and Xiang'an District, and their spouses and minor children may move with them.

2. Will Xiamen cancel restrictions on settling in 2022?

In 2022, Xiamen did not cancel the restrictions on settlement, but only optimized some settlement policies and promoted employment and settlement in Jimei District, Haicang District, Tong'an District and Xiang'an District, such as attracting part-time bachelor's degree graduates to settle outside the island. Part-time bachelor's degree graduates (checkable on the China Higher Education Student Information and Career Center website) who are legally and stably employed in the city and more than 10 years away from the statutory retirement age can settle outside the island. Attract full-time college graduates with a diploma from regular universities to settle outside the island. Graduates who are under 35 years old and have paid social pension insurance in Xiamen for one consecutive year will be adjusted to those who are more than 10 years away from the statutory retirement age and have legal and stable employment in the city. The specific content is: full-time college graduates with a junior college degree who are legally and stably employed in the city and more than 10 years away from the statutory retirement age can settle outside the island. Attract graduates from technical schools to settle outside the island. Graduates of technical schools who have legal and stable employment in the city and graduated after June 2015 can settle outside the island.

Summary: Xiamen’s latest settlement policy in 2022 is to optimize some settlement policies and promote employment settlement in Jimei District, Haicang District, Tong’an District and Xiang’an District. It has not cancelled the settlement, but only relaxed the restrictions on settlement outside the island.