China promotes the reform of household registration system, treats rural household registration and urban household registration equally in public employment and social services, and strives to promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas.
In fact, many places have improved their settlement policies. It is very simple to settle in the local area and enjoy the treatment of local citizens, but there are still many farmers who are unwilling to move their accounts. Why?
First, moving the household registration means giving up the homestead and land contracting right. Homestead and land are actually the roots of farmers, and few farmers are willing to give up this root. The vast majority of farmers are conservative, thinking that even if we fail to struggle in the city, we will still have our own acre of land when we return to our hometown, and at least one tile will be built for us in the old house. Even if farmers are in debt of tens of millions, homestead and land contracting rights cannot be implemented. What about the house in the city?
Second, concerns about future development. As we all know, in many areas, people get rich overnight after demolition, and some people can even get tens of millions of dollars in cash after demolition. For farmers, if they lose their local hukou, they won't get any money or even fair treatment, at least when they are compensated for demolition.
Third, nostalgia. Some farmers think that once they give up their hukou, they are equivalent to people who are not here. I have been here for generations, at least not in my generation.
There is an old saying called it runs in the family, everyone is a farmer, which is true. In the early days of reform and opening up, 80% of our country was farmers, and in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic, 90% of us were farmers. What about now? Less than 40% are farmers.
With the decrease of rural population, the value of rural hukou is getting higher and higher. After all, free mobility can be achieved now. No matter whether the rural hukou is rooted in the city or not, even if the child goes to school, it usually depends on the house and address, not just your hukou.
The Tenth Five-Year Plan plans to improve the use level of land transfer fees in cities, and 50% of land transfer fees will be used to improve rural production and living conditions. I believe that the living conditions in rural areas will get better and better in the future, and more and more people will be willing to stay in the countryside, and even the phenomenon of cities returning to the countryside will occur.