Study On The Capacity Of The Social Welfare Of Urban Household Registration

Household registration system (HRS) in China is the result of heavy industry stratagem during the planned economy period. In order to support the industrialization and insure the basic need of peoples' living, household registration was related with social welfare system, such as the provisionment. After opening reform, with the development of reform of market-oriented economic structure, the traditional HRS cannot meet the needs of modern society and calls for immediate reform. Then, after a series of HRS reform, how much social welfare is still related with urban household registration? Compared with the planned period, is there any change between the relationship of household registration and social welfare? If so, what suggestion will these changes give?The following conclusions could be made through this research: today, the social welfare related with household registration is education, employment, social insurance and so on. Those children without household registration should pay for the public education additionally. Household registration is also the way to get the qualification of eleven-plus. Nowadays, some employers of some special occupation request the employee with household registration, showing the protection of local government to the local people. The people with household registration could get some career service. In the social insurance, the townsman could have better treatment than those without household registration. Moreover, townsman could get social salvation when they are in hot water.Compared with the planned economy period, the relationship between urban household registration and social welfare has been changed. In the level of our country, the relationship becomes loose. In the level of cities and countries, the change of relationship becomes changeable. The content of social welfare changes from the direct economic benefit to indirect benefit and some citizen rights and interests.In the end, the author discusses the goal of HRS reform. The reform should be carried out from country to city; the reform of systems in combination with HRS is the key of HRS reform.