Fujian Province
will soon carry out a reform in which an outdated agricultural and
non-agricultural population system for two-track population
management and the index management on transferring agricultural
population into non-agricultural population to be replaced by a
unified residence management system and admittance qualifications
respectively, a step taken to ensure free population flow from
country to town and speed up urbanization all over Fujian.
The main contents for the reform are as follows:
1.
To abolish the system for agricultural, non-agricultural and other
population management left over from days of the planned economy,
meanwhile to introduce a unified residential management system.
2.
To replace index management on transferring agricultural population
into non-agricultural population by admittance qualifications in
line with relevant policies and local practices.
3.
Parents, children, or husbands / wives may transfer their
registered residency to the places where their children, parents,
or wives / husbands live and work.
Preferential policies for professionals
Henceforth permanent residency will be registered in line with the
dwellers' legal habitations, careers, income sources or other
living bases. Professionals and specialized personnel working in
high-tech and technical enterprises, scientific research
institutions, provincial key projects, and out-of-the-way regions
are permitted to register themselves, their mates and underage
children as permanent residents if their residence conditions are
allowed. In addition, Fuzhou and Xiamen will introduce preferential
policies for mainly absorbing undergraduates and talents with a
higher academic degree.
(
December 25, 2001)