China's Household Registration System Reform And The Transfer Of Rural Population, Urbanization

Urbanization, as to its essence, is the migration to the city constantly of people in the countryside, so, we call the course of changing into urban population "the population urbanization". the process of urbanization are all close and related with the scale, type, property, function, position of city and with the relation of urban and rural economies, and with the internal structure, space structure of national economy and with the overall arrangements of enterprises. According to the estimation by the expert of World Bank, the urbanization level is improved by a percentage point each time at present, can drive increase in GDP 1.5 percentage. However, the development of urbanization of our country still lags behind. It has already become the bottleneck of economic development of our country, has restricted the industrialization, modernized, market-based process of our country, and is unfavorable to solve the three agricultural problems that too, and have influenced and advanced the paces of the well-to-do level and harmonious society of the comprehensive construction in an all-round way. So, it is a great strategic task of the social economic development of our country to advance the urbanization process.The practice of economic development has proved that the greatest obstacle of the urbanization is the household register system that cut apart in urban and rural areas since the foundation of the state. It hinders the most positive and most active factor of productivity—people to flow freely. It is the important sign of modernized development that people's free flows, and is the inevitable outcome of economic development of the market too. The people's free flows helps flowing in order and rational distribution of the human resources. So, in order to reduce peasants' quantity, then to speed the development of urbanization in our country, to promote the relation in urban and rural areas to develop in harmony, to build the harmonious society, we must reform household register system that cuts apart in urban and rural areas and arrange it completely.This essay is divided into six parts:Preface: Research background, meaning, method and research range to introduce thesis.Chapter I: The relevant literature survey of the population shifts theory and the urbanization theory. The theoretical foundation of this essay is mainly involved is two respects: first, the theory of population shifts, there are mainly Lewis model, Lanis- Fei Jinghan model, Jorgenson model, Todaro model, pushing-drawing model, Relative Deprivation Hypothesis in foreign countries, and has done the summary to the relevant research of our country; Second, urbanization theory, hase mainly carried on the survey to theory, such as position theory, space theory and ecological school's theory in foreign countries , and has done the summary to the relevant research of our country.Chapter II: Setting-up of the current household register system of our country and course of reform. Forming of the current household register system is associative with and preferential development strategy of heavy industry and planned economic system after the foundation of our country, and it is a result under the particular historical condition of our country. On the initial stage that it takes shape, it has really played a positive role to ensure the preferential development of heavy industry of the city. After reform and opening-up, the drawback of the system of the current household register displays gradually, so we has carried on multiple reforms and have made the prominent effect.Chapter III: The reform of household register system has a impact on urbanization of our country. First, it is the reform of the household register system that has promoted the urbanization at a certain extent. Acceleration of the urbanization process is favorable to the social economic development of countryside of our country and city. Second, it is the outstanding problem that the urbanization faces in the reform of the household register system, one is that the slow reform of the household register system has restricted the urbanization paces, and has a negative impact on the countryside and social economic development of city; the other is that the urbanization has initiated the contradiction conflict in urban and rural areas.Chapter IV: International comparisons of management of the household register system and the enlightenment of our country. This text passes the comparisons of management of the household register system of the developed and developing market economy countries or areas to obtain the enlightenment of our country. First, cancel the appended document of registered permanent residence, resume true colours of household register; Second, let market manage the flow of population; Third, establish the specialization organization of population management; Fourth, manage the registered permanent residence in accordance with the law.Chapter V: Accelerate reforming for the comprehensive system of the centre with the reform of the household register system. According to the reality and international experience of our country, we have proposed the basic principle of the reform of the current household register system and main measure. On the basis of improving one's own reform of household register system, we will carry on the reform of their relevant systems, for instance social security system, employment system, education system, land system, housing system etc. Meanwhile, we will speed up the development of the city and rural social economy.