People-oriented urbanization
7 years, 10 months ago

People-oriented urbanization

China Daily  

Models of residential buildings are seen at a sales center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, September 23, 2016. According to a recent report published by the National Bureau of Statistics, China had 281.71 million migrant workers by the end of 2016, an increase of 1.5 percent from the previous year's figure. Whether migrant workers choose to stay or leave their home provinces to work is mainly determined by such market factors as job opportunities and wage levels. In this sense, that more migrant workers choose to work in their home provinces to some extent reflects the fact that local employment is becoming more attractive and development across the country more balanced. This also means the governments of the less-developed central and western regions should work harder to improve local living conditions and service levels to attract local migrant workers.

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China issues guideline to promote employment for migrant workers
4 months ago

China issues guideline to promote employment for migrant workers

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China will further promote high-quality and sufficient employment for migrant workers and facilitate their urbanization process, according to a guideline published on Friday. China will work to enhance working skills of migrant workers, safeguard their labor rights and interests, and improve the long-term mechanism for controlling arrears of wages, according to the guideline. The country will promote the …

Key Chinese cities adjust buying regulations to boost real estate market
5 months ago

Key Chinese cities adjust buying regulations to boost real estate market

China Daily  

A saleswoman shows a model of a newly developed residential area to a potential homebuyer in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. TIANJIN — North China's Tianjin municipality abolished restrictive measures on home buying on Wednesday, marking another major Chinese city to adjust housing purchase policies to stabilize the real estate market. Individuals who purchase commodity housing …

Affordable housing increased for migrant workers
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Affordable housing increased for migrant workers

China Daily  

Shanghai's target for this year to provide housing for 30,000 migrant workers at affordable prices is expected to be achieved by October, according to local officials. Housing for 21,100 workers has been provided at 25 sites spanning all of the city's 16 districts so far, with most monthly rents priced between 500 yuan and 1,000 yuan, accounting for no more …

Government acts to help city dwellers secure jobs
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Government acts to help city dwellers secure jobs

China Daily  

The central government has pledged to step up efforts to help the nearly 300 million migrant workers in China secure more stable jobs and better work experience, as the nation ratchets up its broader push to advance "new urbanization". It will see that favorable policies are implemented to support companies in creating and stabilizing jobs for migrant workers, Shang said …

'New urbanization' to benefit migrants
6 months, 3 weeks ago

'New urbanization' to benefit migrants

China Daily  

YANG MEINI/FOR CHINA DAILY China has mapped out major steps to further advance its "new urbanization" strategy, offering migrant workers broader access to urban public services, strengthening industrial development in less-urbanized areas and promoting a more shared growth of cities. The 18 percentage-point gap "means there is substantial room for China's urbanization", said Zhang Fei, vice-president of the China Institute …

New urbanization should focus on people's needs
7 months, 3 weeks ago

New urbanization should focus on people's needs

China Daily  

An aerial view of Canton Tower in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. YANG HE/FOR CHINA DAILY China will advance its people-centered new urbanization through concrete measures, according to a five-year action plan unveiled on Wednesday by the State Council, China's Cabinet. The country plans to support more rural migrant workers in settling down in urban areas and aims to lift …

New urbanization should focus on people's needs
7 months, 3 weeks ago

New urbanization should focus on people's needs

China Daily  

An aerial view of Canton Tower in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. YANG HE/FOR CHINA DAILY China will advance its people-centered new urbanization through concrete measures, according to a five-year action plan unveiled on Wednesday by the State Council, China's Cabinet. The country plans to support more rural migrant workers in settling down in urban areas and aims to lift …

Migrant workers who helped build modern China have scant or no pensions, and can’t retire
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Migrant workers who helped build modern China have scant or no pensions, and can’t retire

Associated Press  

BEIJING — At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. “But for older migrant workers, there simply are no positions,” said Zhang, who conducted field studies at four labor markets across China late last year. Zhang Quanshou, a village official in Henan province and a delegate to China’s National People’s Congress, said some older migrant …

Graduates opt to work in home regions
1 year, 7 months ago

Graduates opt to work in home regions

China Daily  

Job seekers look for employment at a career fair for graduates unable to land a job in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday. ZHANG CHaNG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE Growing number of degree holders choosing jobs away from first-tier cities More college graduates are choosing to return to their home provinces to work rather than stay in first-tier cities, according to a new …

China works to boost employment for migrant workers
4 years, 7 months ago

China works to boost employment for migrant workers

China Daily  

China is taking multipronged measures to enable its vast number of migrant workers to find jobs as the country coordinates regular COVID-19 prevention and control with efforts related to economic and social development. According to a recent guideline jointly issued by 15 government departments, including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the National Development and Reform Commission, …

China to help poor migrant workers secure jobs
4 years, 9 months ago

China to help poor migrant workers secure jobs

China Daily  

China will ramp up efforts to help impoverished migrant workers find or secure jobs. The move aims to ensure the migrant labor force remains stable or improves this year, according to a circular, jointly issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development. …

‘This country doesn’t help you. You help yourself’: China’s rural migrants struggle with no work
4 years, 9 months ago

‘This country doesn’t help you. You help yourself’: China’s rural migrants struggle with no work

LA Times  

The villager looked at the photograph of his dead grandmother. China is facing “challenges like never before,” said Premier Li Keqiang as he read the party’s pared-down economic goals. “And if he wasn’t successful, everyone would call him a fool.” Chen’s wife, an out-of-work kindergarten teacher, sat at home monitoring their fourth-grade son’s online lessons every day. “I don’t want …

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent
5 years, 2 months ago

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent

China Daily  

中共中央办公厅、国务院办公厅印发了《关于促进劳动力和人才社会性流动体制机制改革的意见》。 The General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council has jointly issued a guideline to step up reform to improve social mobility of labor force and talent. Conditions for residential settlement will be relaxed for large cities with a residential population of three million to five million in urban …

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent
5 years, 2 months ago

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent

China Daily  

中共中央办公厅、国务院办公厅印发了《关于促进劳动力和人才社会性流动体制机制改革的意见》。 The General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council has jointly issued a guideline to step up reform to improve social mobility of labor force and talent. Conditions for residential settlement will be relaxed for large cities with a residential population of three million to five million in urban …

Best Chinese cities for expats in 2018 revealed
5 years, 11 months ago

Best Chinese cities for expats in 2018 revealed

China Daily  

A view of Shanghai. The annual survey Amazing China -- the Most Attractive Chinese Cities for Expats 2018 unveiled its results at the Shenzhen forum of the Conference on International Exchange of Professionals on April 14 in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province. Shanghai, China's financial hub, prevailed as expats' favorite city to work and live in for the seventh year …

Reverse urbanization provides new direction for rural regions
6 years, 2 months ago

Reverse urbanization provides new direction for rural regions

China Daily  

Former migrant workers are returning home and establishing their own businesses. During the 40 days of China's most important festival, hundreds of millions of people, most of them migrant workers, return to their hometowns from the distant cities where they work. After 40 years of reform and opening-up, developed East China is witnessing a large-scale industrial transformation, with labor-intensive industries …

Young Chinese look beyond big expensive cities
7 years, 11 months ago

Young Chinese look beyond big expensive cities

China Daily  

Neon lights glow against the darkening sky in this night view of the Ping An International Finance Center and other skyscrapers in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province. China's first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are becoming less attractive for the country's young brains, a new survey shows. Almost a quarter of respondents to the survey conducted by …

Young Chinese look beyond big expensive cities
7 years, 11 months ago

Young Chinese look beyond big expensive cities

China Daily  

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-04-11 13:18 Neon lights glow against the darkening sky in this night view of the Ping An International Finance Center and other skyscrapers in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province. China's first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are becoming less attractive for the country's young brains, a new survey shows. The survey results showed that …

Young Chinese leave big expensive cities due to soaring housing prices
7 years, 11 months ago

Young Chinese leave big expensive cities due to soaring housing prices

China Daily  

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-04-11 13:26 Soaring housing prices are driving people out of the country's first-tier cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, a new survey shows. The Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily recently surveyed 2,000 people, who were either currently or had previously worked or studied in first-tier cities about their plans. If people left the first-tier …

Young Chinese leave big expensive cities due to soaring housing prices
7 years, 11 months ago

Young Chinese leave big expensive cities due to soaring housing prices

China Daily  

Soaring housing prices are driving people out of the country's first-tier cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, a new survey shows. The Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily recently surveyed 2,000 people, who were either currently or had previously worked or studied in first-tier cities about their plans. If people left the first-tier cities, 46.7 percent said they …

Successful urbanization not just homebuying
8 years, 2 months ago

Successful urbanization not just homebuying

China Daily  

Models of residential buildings are seen at a sales center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, September 23, 2016. China Youth Daily commented on Thursday: The trend of rural residents buying homes in small cities is supposed to be a win-win outcome. As they struggle to reduce the property glut, the local governments provide favorable policies for purchasing the newly built houses, …

Major centers look for ways to cure 'big city disease'[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
8 years, 3 months ago

Major centers look for ways to cure 'big city disease'[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

An overpass in Shanghai during the evening rush hour. The growing number of cars on China's roads is a major cause of air pollution in many cities.Zhang Guangyao / For Chinadaily Unbalanced urban and rural development is driving up the populations of China's largest cities and resulting in a lack of basic amenities and social services. This week's pollution red …

China to help more rural migrants settle in cities
8 years, 11 months ago

China to help more rural migrants settle in cities

China Daily  

BEIJING - China will ease household relocation policies in 2016 to help more migrants settle in cities, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission said Tuesday. To achieve the urbanization goal, around 100 million migrants need be granted with urban household registration, said Xu Lin, an official with the NDRC, at a press conference. Currently about 39.9 percent …

Half of farmers not interested in migrating to urban areas
8 years, 11 months ago

Half of farmers not interested in migrating to urban areas

China Daily  

Migrant workers Zhang Yaozong and his wife play with their son at their home in Zhangzhuang village, Hebei province, March 29, 2016. Fifty percent of farmers responding to a survey said they have no plans to move to towns and settle down in urban areas, reported 21cn.com on Thursday. The report said if the migrants go back to rural areas …

Immigrant numbers rise in cities
9 years ago

Immigrant numbers rise in cities

China Daily  

Business opportunities, better living conditions are seen as key attractions on Chinese mainland Foreigners take part in an activity to celebrate the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival in Shanghai, Feb 20, 2016. Major cities on the Chinese mainland are attracting a growing number of immigrants from around the world, although the rate is still very low compared with major international metropolises …

Incentives needed to boost urbanization's full benefits
9 years, 1 month ago

Incentives needed to boost urbanization's full benefits

China Daily  

Incentives needed to boost urbanization's full benefits By Zheng Yangpeng Updated: 2016-01-30 08:16 China must overcome hesitancy on the part of both municipal governments and rural residents in order to boost the numbers of migrants settling in cities, the country's top economic planner said. "The hukou holder rate increase was impeded by two factors: local governments' reluctance and rural residents' …

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official
9 years, 3 months ago

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official

China Daily  

BEIJING - China plans to turn 100 million farmers into registered urban residents with the hope that this will encourage them to buy city apartments and help alleviate the country's massive housing glut, an official said on Tuesday. The plan will be implemented starting next year, said Xu Shaoshi, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top …

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official
9 years, 3 months ago

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official

China Daily  

BEIJING - China plans to turn 100 million farmers into registered urban residents with the hope that this will encourage them to buy city apartments and help alleviate the country's massive housing glut, an official said on Tuesday. The plan will be implemented starting next year, said Xu Shaoshi, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top …

China encourages migrants to establish businesses back home
9 years, 9 months ago

China encourages migrants to establish businesses back home

China Daily  

A Chinese migrant worker cleans the exterior window of a high-rise building in Beijing, China, April 24, 2015. The Chinese government announced key details to support more migrant workers, veterans and university graduates to establish businesses back home, building new foundations to diversify development in the nation's western region and rural areas on Friday. Xin Changxing, vice minister of the …

Urbanization to boost spending
9 years, 10 months ago

Urbanization to boost spending

China Daily  

New buildings in Huaxian county, Henan province. Growth of cities can address the nation's economic challenges, NDRC official says A new wave of urbanization could spark the consumption and investment needed to address China's complex economic situation, the nation's top economic planner said on Wednesday. This year, the government aims to move about 10 million agricultural workers and other rural …

For returning migrant workers, a changed and desolate homeland
9 years, 10 months ago

For returning migrant workers, a changed and desolate homeland

China Daily  

Migrant workers walk out of the Haozhou Railway Station, East China's Anhui province, Jan 18, 2014. As the first wave of Chinese migrant workers return to live in their hometowns, they may find that life has changed dramatically from when they first left, a PhD student in Shanghai University revealed in his journal published in The Paper. Rural areas tend …

Protection of rural residents' rights in urbanization urged
10 years, 6 months ago

Protection of rural residents' rights in urbanization urged

China Daily  

ST. PETERSBURG - Guaranteeing the rights of rural residents is the most important issue in the urbanization process, a renowned Chinese economist said Monday. Rights come first, settling household registration differences comes second, and then erasing differences between residence permits should follow, Li Yining suggested at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. Li gave a lecture on …

People progress[2]
10 years, 6 months ago

People progress[2]

China Daily  

People progress Updated: 2014-09-05 07:25 Migrant workers at a shoe factory in Jinjiang, Fujian province in June. "The living standards of urban residents should be raised to enhance the sense of belonging of migrant workers who have become a part of the community," Liu said. Chen Rongfa, Party chief of Jinjiang, said the government will keep working on the policies …

China eyes higher labor quality to spur growth
10 years, 7 months ago

China eyes higher labor quality to spur growth

China Daily  

BEIJING - Government's decision to provide more vocational trainings to migrant workers will not only increase their incomes, but also nurture a high quality work force that is vital to China's economic upgrading, analysts said. A State Council executive meeting held on Wednesday said services for migrant workers will be improved, including more training courses covering job skills. Yang Zhiming, …

China's new urbanization to contribute to world[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
10 years, 8 months ago

China's new urbanization to contribute to world[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

UNITED NATIONS - A Chinese envoy said on Tuesday that the ongoing urbanization process in China, which he called "new urbanization," will not only benefit from but also contribute to the whole world. "It both benefits from and contributes to growth opportunities in the world," he said, adding that the unfolding of China's new urbanization will add greatly to its …

How urbanization can help the poor[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
10 years, 11 months ago

How urbanization can help the poor[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

Over the past three decades and a half, China's urban population has risen from less than one-fifth of the total to more than half, which means about 500 million people have been added to the urban population. By 2030, up to 70 percent of China's population is likely to live in cities - that is, one in every six urbanites …

Urbanization can close China's income gap: OECD economist
11 years ago

Urbanization can close China's income gap: OECD economist

China Daily  

BEIJING - Urbanization can help ease China's urban-rural income disparity, a senior economist with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Saturday. Margit Molnar, head of the China desk in the OECD economics department told China Development Forum 2014, that rapid urbanization can fuel inclusive growth and a more equitable income distribution. China's Gini coefficient, an index of …

Major cities losing their allure for new graduates
11 years, 2 months ago

Major cities losing their allure for new graduates

China Daily  

After much consideration, Ying Hanlu decided against finding work in Beijing and Shanghai and instead returned home after graduating in the summer. Although 35 percent of the 4,000 employees polled choose to stay in one of the major cities, 53 percent said they had considered relocating to second or third-tier cities, up 16 percent year-on-year. "As the central government is …

China’s urbanization drive: ‘Sim City’ on steroids
11 years, 2 months ago

China’s urbanization drive: ‘Sim City’ on steroids

CNN  

Editor’s Note: This month’s episode of On China with Kristie Lu Stout focuses on the country’s rush to urbanize and airs for the first time on Wednesday at 0530 ET. For all viewing times and more information about the show please Story highlights Half of population now lives in cities, but push to urbanize has had mixed results China has …

Substantial incentives for farming are needed
11 years, 2 months ago

Substantial incentives for farming are needed

China Daily  

After decades since the great rural-to-urban migration began in the 1980s, the children of those first migrants are choosing to remain in the cities where they were born and raised. Even though the Chinese government recently announced that crop production has increased over the past 10 years, top leaders still see food security as a major issue, with the recent …

Substantial incentives for farming are needed
11 years, 2 months ago

Substantial incentives for farming are needed

China Daily  

After decades since the great rural-to-urban migration began in the 1980s, the children of those first migrants are choosing to remain in the cities where they were born and raised. Even though the Chinese government recently announced that crop production has increased over the past 10 years, top leaders still see food security as a major issue, with the recent …

chinadaily.com.cn
11 years, 9 months ago

chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

Timeline Updated: 2013-06-14 09:33 1950s China's household registration system divides citizens into rural and urban categories, to prevent large-scale population movements and ensure social stability. March 2001 The 10th Five-Year Plan lists urbanization as a national strategy, and says rising levels of urbanization will optimize the economic structure and create virtuous cycles of sustainable socio-economic development. March 2011 The 12th …

China’s great migration from ‘Hukou Hell’
12 years, 1 month ago

China’s great migration from ‘Hukou Hell’

CNN  

Are you celebrating the Lunar New Year? Story highlights Household registration system "Hukou" behind China's mass migration System divides the population into rural and urban residents Citizens can only access social services where they are registered Migrant workers have restricted access to education, welfare, medical and housing benefits At this very moment, in a major Chinese city, a worker is …

Schools for migrant workers' children closed in Beijing
13 years, 7 months ago

Schools for migrant workers' children closed in Beijing

China Daily  

Since June, 24 schools in Daxing, Chaoyang and Haidian districts in the Chinese capital Beijing have been shut down. which have indeed been plaguing most of these schools, the move, nevertheless, has sparked fresh concern over discrimination against children of migrant workers. Under China's household registration system, migrant workers in effect remain registered in their home towns even if they …

Schools for migrant workers' children closed in Beijing
13 years, 7 months ago

Schools for migrant workers' children closed in Beijing

China Daily  

Since June, 24 schools in Daxing, Chaoyang and Haidian districts in the Chinese capital Beijing have been shut down. which have indeed been plaguing most of these schools, the move, nevertheless, has sparked fresh concern over discrimination against children of migrant workers. Under China's household registration system, migrant workers in effect remain registered in their home towns even if they …

Govt to fight discrimination against migrant workers
14 years ago

Govt to fight discrimination against migrant workers

China Daily  

Economy Govt to fight discrimination against migrant workers Updated: 2011-02-28 10:40 BEIJING - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday that the government will strive to end discrimination against rural migrant workers in employment, education and training. Many rural migrant workers had no stable work in the cities and their land in hometown was their fundamental guarantee for living, he …

Experts say hukou system is unfair to farmers
14 years, 4 months ago

Experts say hukou system is unfair to farmers

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 China's urbanization would be set back if the government does not reform the hukou system, experts said. China's urban areas held 45.6 percent of the country's population at the end of 2008, 44.9 points higher than in 1976, according to a report released in early October by the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics under the Chinese Academy …

Urbanizing China
14 years, 7 months ago

Urbanizing China

China Daily  

Specials Urbanizing China Updated: 2010-08-06 10:33 Editor's Note: China's accelerated urbanization has been a powerhouse of its booming economy and offers its vast rural people a convenient path to prosperity. More and more young migrant workers want but can't afford to stay in overcrowded cities, brewing ticklish social tension over widening wealth gap. Cartoon courtesy of HSW.cn Widening wealth gap …

Urbanizing China
14 years, 7 months ago

Urbanizing China

China Daily  

Specials Urbanizing China Updated: 2010-08-06 10:33 Editor's Note: China's accelerated urbanization has been a powerhouse of its booming economy and offers its vast rural people a convenient path to prosperity. More and more young migrant workers want but can't afford to stay in overcrowded cities, brewing ticklish social tension over widening wealth gap. Cartoon courtesy of HSW.cn Widening wealth gap …

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