Annual Report on Urban Development of China 2013

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pan, Jiahua (Editor), Wei, Houkai (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Current Chinese Economic Report Series,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Economic sociology.; Social Sciences.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.

This book focuses on China’s urban development. In China, the process of allowing more rural migrants to become registered city residents in urban areas remains stagnant despite its importance to the Chinese government and the existence of a national consensus about it. Cities can compulsorily purch...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Overall Strategy for Promoting the Citizenization of Rural Migrant Workers
• Evaluating China’s Cities for Scientifically-sound Development
• The Evolution of China’s Migrant Worker Policies for since 1978
• The Status of Migrants in Cities and Innovations in Social Management
• Cost Estimation and Cost Sharing Mechanism for Citizenization of Rural Migrant Workers
• Methods for the Citizenization of Migrant Workers in Mega-cities
• Approach to and Suggestions for Further Reform of the Hukou System 
• Encouraging Farmers to Migrate with Asset
• Establishing a Unified Urban-rural Fair Employment System
• Promoting Universal Coverage of Basic Public Services among Urban Residents
• Improving the Social Security System for Migrant Workers
• Strengthening Housing Security for Migrant Workers.