Abstract
It was proposed in the report to the 18th Party Congress that “We should accelerate reform of the household registration system, conduct registration of rural migrant workers as permanent urban residents in an orderly way, and endeavor to ensure that all permanent urban residents have access to basic urban public services.” Improving the social security system for migrant workers is an important task in providing all permanent urban residents with the same basic urban public services, and is of critical importance for the citizenization of rural migrant workers. Moreover, it is a vital step in protecting migrant workers’ rights to social security, for advancing urbanization in a proactive and prudent manner, for narrowing the gaps between urban and rural areas and disparate economic groups, for stimulating domestic demand, and finally for addressing specifically agricultural issues dealing with land and farm workers in China.
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In 2003, Sun Zhigang, a man from Hubei Province, was sent by a law enforcement agency in Guangzhou City to a local custody and repatriation center because he had no ID card, no temporary residence permit and no work permit. Sun was beaten to death by employees of this center when he was detained there.
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Li Qiang: Urban Migrant Workers and Social Stratification in China, Social Sciences Academic Press (China), 2004.
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Zheng Gongcheng and Huangli Ruolian: Rural-urban Migrant Workers in China: Issue and Social Protection, People’s Publishing House, 2007.
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Non-local migrant workers: rural people of working age who work in places other than areas administered by their townships for at least 6 months in the survey year.
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The building and manufacturing have medium risks, and the three others have low risks, according to the Table of Industry-specific Base Rates and Variations for Work Insurance in Beijing City. Given that the levels of industry-specific workplace injury risks do not vary widely from region to region, we know that the levels of workplace injury risks in these five industries across China are the same as in Beijing, that is, the building and manufacturing industries have higher workplace injury risks than in the three others.
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Manufacturing represents the largest share, or 36.0 %, of all migrant workers in China, and is followed by the building industry at 17.7 %, according to the Migrant Workers Monitoring Survey Report 2011.
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In 2005, the monthly average wage of employees in Shanghai was 2,235 yuan. Given an integrated insurance program in this city, local employers pay social insurance premiums at an overall rate instead of individual ones. Accordingly, the calculation is 2,235 × 60 % × 12.5 %.
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The DRC Research Team: Civilianizing the Rural migrant workers, China Development Press, 2011.
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The DRC Research Team: Research Report on Rural Migrant Workers in China, China Yanshi Press, 2006.
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Li Peilin and Li Wei: “Migrant workers in a transforming China: economic status and social attitude”, Sociological Studies 2007 Issue 1.
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Li Peilin and Li Wei: “Migrant workers in a transforming China: economic status and social attitude”, Sociological Studies 2007 Issue 1.
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Yao Jianping estimated in an article titled “On the levels of the minimum living allowances in Chinese cities” that the monthly average minimum living allowance was 331.78 yuan in 36 major Chinese cities in 2010. It was with this figure that we estimated the annual average minimum living allowance to be about 4,000 yuan/person in 2011.
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Li, H., Liang, S. (2015). Improving the Social Security System for Migrant Workers. In: Pan, J., Wei, H. (eds) Annual Report on Urban Development of China 2013. Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46324-6_11
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