Integrated rural-urban development will help ensure common prosperity

A farmer harvests at a wheat field at Yantang village of Kaiyang county in Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou province, May 31, 2023. However, data from the seventh national census indicates that about three-quarters of China's new urban population is actually an "amorphous population", who have permanent residence permits as they live and work in urban areas, but still hold on to their rural hukou, or household registration, and homes in the countryside. At the same time, the system of providing basic public services based on the number of urban people with permanent residence permits should be established and all people with such permits should be able to enjoy the same rights in social insurance, housing guarantees and children's education as those with urban hukou do. The central authorities also said the country will deepen reform aimed at promoting the separation of ownership, contracting rights and management rights of rural contracted land, and improve the transfer mechanism of rural contracted land, to inflate farmers' property rights and interests, boost the rural economy, and promote agricultural modernization. This will also help release more workers from rural areas, improve the country's social wealth distribution, expand domestic demand, and narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, promoting common prosperity.