The central and western provinces have successively lowered the threshold for settlement. In addition to increasing population, there are these reasons!
Central and western provinces such as Hubei, Anhui, Henan, and Sichuan have successively lowered the threshold for settlement in order to cope with the problem of declining birthrate and aging, increasing the total population and improving the population structure.
The Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission recently issued the "Key Points of the Province's New Urbanization and Urban-Rural Integration Development in 2021" (hereinafter referred to as "Key Points of Work"), pointing out the need to deepen the liberalization of urban settlement restrictions.
To eliminate restrictions on settlement in other areas of the province outside Wuhan, further reduce the threshold for settlement in Wuhan, and implement a one-location settlement mechanism for household registration within the province.
Population experts pointed out that all localities must not only rely on the quantitative advantages of the total population, but more importantly, rely on the quality advantages of the population to consolidate the foundation for economic development.
Hubei adjusted the settlement policy in time
In order to promote the full integration of the agricultural migrant population into the city, Hubei proposes to completely abolish unreasonable settlement restrictions and implement a basic conditional access system.
The "Work Essentials" stated that it is necessary to deepen the liberalization of urban household registration restrictions, deepen the reform of the household registration system, focus on the urban stock of agricultural transfer population, completely remove unreasonable household settlement restrictions, and implement a basic conditional access system.
To eliminate restrictions on settlement in other areas of the province outside Wuhan, further reduce the threshold for settlement in Wuhan, and implement a one-location settlement mechanism for household registration within the province.
On March 8 this year, Hu Zucai, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that the threshold for settlement must be lowered to achieve "wishfulness."
We will relax restrictions on settlement in cities other than some mega-cities, and try to implement a household registration system with the place of usual residence to promote the orderly settlement of agricultural migrants who live in stable employment.
Cities with a permanent population of less than 3 million in urban areas must completely abolish the restrictions on settlement to ensure that the standards for settlement of rural and local agricultural migrants are treated equally; for large cities with permanent residents of 3 to 5 million in Type I cities, the settlement conditions must be fully relaxed.
Dong Yuzheng, a population expert and dean of the Guangdong Provincial Population Development Research Institute, said in an interview with a reporter from China Business News that Hubei will increase the population and improve the population structure by lowering the threshold for settlement of the three-child policy. Maintaining the advantage of human capital endowment has certain positive significance.
A reporter from China Business News found that the population of the province increased by 514830 in ten years, an increase of 0.90%, and the average annual growth rate was only 0.09%.
However, the degree of aging continues to deepen. The population of 60 years old and above is 11.795 million, accounting for 20.42% (of which 8.243 million people are 65 and above, accounting for 14.59%). The proportion of the elderly population has increased by 6.49 percentage points in the past 10 years.
In addition, the population of Hubei Province living in cities and towns is 36.204 million, accounting for 62.89%, and the proportion of the population living in cities and towns is lower than the national level (63.89%).
Dong Yuzheng believes that the Qipu's series of data reveal that Hubei's adjustment of the settlement policy is urgent and timely. Next, we need to look at two points: first, whether the implementation is thorough, comprehensive, active and effective, and whether it can meet or even exceed expectations; The second is whether there are innovations in the specific implementation process, and whether these policies are given rich content and colorful forms.
Wuhan needs to continue to release talent dividends
At the same time, Hubei Qipu data also showed that among the province's 17 cities, prefectures, municipalities, and Shennongjia forest areas, only one has a permanent population of more than 10 million, namely Wuhan.
The permanent population of Wuhan increased by 2.5411 million, ranking first in the province. The permanent population of the city was 12.326 million, accounting for 21.34% of the total population of Hubei Province.
In order to continue to expand and strengthen Wuhan, the "Work Essentials" further lowered the threshold for settlement in Wuhan: promote Wuhan to fully implement the cancellation of employment in the city, the cancellation of agricultural transfer populations who have lived in the city for more than 5 years and their families have migrated, and the new students who have stable employment and life in urban areas Restrictions on the settlement of key groups such as migrant workers, rural students entering schools and the population who entered the army into cities and towns will be improved, and the points settlement method will be improved to ensure that the social insurance payment period and the number of years of residence are the main proportions.
Dong Yuzheng pointed out that it is a systematic project for Hubei to use the power of the whole province to continue to make Wuhan bigger and stronger, and to raise the primacy of the provincial capital city.
From the perspective of population policy, it is not only necessary to rely on the quantitative advantage of the total population to support, but more importantly, rely on the quality advantage of the population to lay a solid foundation.
"As a national central city under construction, Wuhan has more requirements for the total population and the quality of the population, with more content and stricter conditions." Dong Yuzheng told a reporter from China Business News that a certain population is the basis. , But what is more important is the quality of the population and the level of talents, and the adaptability and relevance of population, talents and regional development.
"For example, if a region wants to develop high-tech industries, what it needs will not be a population below junior high school graduation, but professional talents with undergraduate and postgraduate graduations." Dong Yuzheng said that the increased population and introduced talents, It should be a real force and a guarantee for the future to promote the realization of high-quality development.
According to the data of the Seventh census in Wuhan, in 10 years, the number of permanent residents in Wuhan with a university education per 100,000 people rose from 25,191 to 33,867, an increase of 8.68%, second only to Beijing (41980) and Shanghai (33872). ), higher than Shenzhen (28849) and Guangzhou (27277).
"This has provided Wuhan with a realistic and solid foundation for realizing the historical transition from the'demographic dividend' to the'talent dividend' and achieving high-quality development." Dong Yuzheng believes that Wuhan must play the core role and take the lead as a central city. It is necessary to continue to release talent dividends, adhere to the unity of quantity and quality, and build a population-balanced society, so as to better assist Hubei to achieve the economic and social development goal of "one dominance, two wings, and global coordination".
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A reporter from China Business News noted that in the central and western regions, Hubei is not the first province to open up policies for resident settlements other than the provincial capital.
In 2016, the "Notice on Strengthening and Regulating Population Registration Management" issued by Sichuan Province proposed that all localities should refine and introduce local household registration system reform plans and related supporting measures before the end of 2016, and implement the whole province except Chengdu. Fully liberalize the requirements for settlement restrictions in large, medium and small cities and organic towns, and ensure that there is a "zero threshold" for entering cities and public services are guaranteed.
In 2017, Anhui Province also issued the "Several Policies on Increasing the Urbanization Rate of the Registered Population and Accelerating the Promotion of New Urbanization", which mentioned that all other cities except Hefei will be fully liberalized to set up residence restrictions, and the agricultural transfer population will be urbanized nearby. Start the work of changing counties to cities and districts in an orderly manner.
At the same time, Hefei is encouraged to further relax the conditions for settlement. The agricultural migrant population who has settled in Hefei urban area, their spouses, children, parents, etc. who live and live together, can apply for settlement.
Last year, Henan Province issued the "Key Tasks for Henan Province's New Urbanization Construction and Urban-Rural Integration Development in 2020". About 2 million people migrated from agriculture to the city and settled down.
"This shows that all localities attach great importance to the population issue as a basic issue in the realization of development strategies, and take concrete actions to implement them." Dong Yuzheng pointed out that all localities have gradually realized that in order to develop the economy, they must not only pay attention to economic indicators, but also pay attention to them. The focus is on "people's indicators, per capita indicators and the improvement of people's comprehensive quality".
At the same time, “in response to the declining birthrate and aging population, as well as the new social development characteristics of urbanization and informatization, all regions have a sense of urgency, and there are positive anxiety about population issues, positive tension, and measures are being taken. Attracting the population, attracting talents, striving to maintain and striving to expand the local human capital endowment advantages, and provide the necessary human capital guarantee for the realization of the overall economic and social development." Dong Yuzheng said that now all localities have introduced new settlement policies, which can be described as " "Going out is all about the flower people", but the truly valuable and brilliant ones depend on who is really standing in the "New Year", rather than waiting, hesitating, and losing opportunities.
Author: Zhou Fang