With regard to the next step of implementing the new urbanization strategy and improving the quality in the outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan, Hu Zucai, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that urbanization is the only way for modernization, the source of China's greatest domestic demand potential and strong domestic market, and an important support for building a new development pattern.
Hu Zucai introduced that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's new urbanization construction has made great historic achievements, and the agricultural transfer population has accelerated its integration into cities. The urbanization rates of permanent residents and registered residents exceeded 60% and 45% respectively, and the goal of 654.38 billion agricultural transfer population and other permanent residents settling in cities and towns was successfully achieved. The urban agglomeration pattern of "19+2" has been basically established, and the city has taken on a new look.
Hu Zucai said that during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, the urbanization rate of China was between 60% and 70%. This stage is still the middle and late stage of rapid development, and it is also a critical period of comprehensive transformation. We should stick to the road of new urbanization with China characteristics, further promote the new urbanization strategy with people as the core, and comprehensively improve the quality of urbanization development. In this regard, Hu Zucai put forward three points:
First, deepen the reform of the household registration system and promote the urbanization of agricultural transfer population in an orderly manner.
At present, there are still more than 200 million agricultural migrants who have not settled in cities, some of whom have already settled in cities, and the quality of citizenization is still not high. Promoting the urbanization of agricultural transfer population is still the primary task of new urbanization. It is necessary to give priority to the stock and promote the increment, make overall plans to promote the reform of the household registration system and the full coverage of basic public services, and accelerate the full integration of agricultural transfer population into cities.
On the one hand, the threshold for settlement is continuously lowered to achieve "willing to drop". Relax the restrictions on urban settlement except for a few megacities, and try out the permanent residence registration system to promote the orderly settlement of agricultural transfer population with stable employment and residence. Cities with a permanent population of less than 3 million should completely cancel the restrictions on settlement and ensure that foreign and local agricultural transfer populations are treated equally; For I-type big cities with a permanent population of 3 million to 5 million in urban areas, the conditions for settlement should be fully relaxed; In megacities with a permanent population of more than 5 million, it is necessary to improve the policy of settlement of points, streamline points projects, ensure that social insurance payment years and residence years account for the main proportion, and encourage qualified cities to cancel annual quota restrictions. At the same time, safeguard the rural "three rights" of farmers who have settled in cities according to law.
On the other hand, promote the equal access of permanent residents to basic public services in cities and towns, and achieve "equal treatment and equality in everything". We will improve the basic public service provision mechanism based on residence permit and linked to the length of residence, encourage local governments to provide more basic public services and conveniences, improve the actual enjoyment level of residence permit holders' services such as urban compulsory education and housing security, and promote the non-registered population to gradually enjoy the same basic public services as the registered population.
At the same time, it is necessary to improve the urbanization mechanism of agricultural transfer population and promote the linkage of "people, land and money" We will improve the policy of linking fiscal transfer payments with the urbanization of agricultural transfer population, establish a mechanism of linking urban construction land allocation with the number of agricultural transfer population, and adjust the staffing and facilities layout of public service areas according to the actual population flow.
Second, optimize the layout of urbanization and promote the coordinated development of large, medium and small cities.
Megacities should advocate "slimming and fitness". The epidemic situation in COVID-19 exposed some problems such as high population density and weak ability to resist risks in some megacities. To solve these problems, we should do a good job in three aspects. First, delimit and stick to the boundaries of urban development, and carefully withdraw counties from districts. Second, orderly deconstruct non-core functions, guide the over-concentrated resource elements to gradually and orderly transfer, and reasonably reduce the development intensity and population density of the central city. The third is to develop in conjunction with surrounding small and medium-sized cities and suburban new cities, and cultivate and develop a number of modern metropolitan areas by promoting traffic integration.
Large and medium-sized cities should improve their functions. It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of relatively low comprehensive costs in large and medium-sized cities, take the initiative to undertake industrial transfer and functional reconciliation in megacities, and improve urban service functions and quality of life.
County towns should speed up the filling of shortcomings and promote urbanization with county towns as an important carrier. The county seat is "the head of the township and the tail of the city", an important position to serve hundreds of millions of farmers and an important support point to expand domestic demand. In most areas, county towns are still the first choice for farmers to seek medical treatment, obtain employment and enroll their children. At present, there are still many shortcomings and weaknesses in the construction of county towns, so we must take county towns as an important carrier to promote urbanization. Since last year, we have adapted measures to local conditions, guided by classification, accelerated the filling of shortcomings in counties, including mega-towns, improved the top-level design, strengthened financial support, and carried out demonstrations in an orderly manner. During the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to support the construction of county towns with good foundation in the eastern region, focus on the construction of county towns in the urbanization areas of the central and western regions and the northeast region, reasonably support the construction of county towns in major agricultural products producing areas and key ecological function areas, and strengthen the construction of border towns. Actively promote the upgrading and expansion of facilities in four major areas 17, such as public services, environmental sanitation, municipal utilities and industrial cultivation, and enhance the comprehensive carrying capacity and governance capacity of the county.
Third, improve the quality of the city in an all-round way, and promote livable and suitable business.
We will promote the public transportation, parking lots, charging piles and other short boards that are in strong demand, strengthen the construction of flood control and drainage system, promote the urban waterlogging control and achieve remarkable results, complete the transformation of 210.9 million old urban areas completed before the end of 2000, and use digital technology to improve the level of urban governance so that urban residents can enjoy a higher quality of urban life.