The negative aspects of this include the lack of insurance, education, or health benefits received by the native Hukou carriers; Current Chinese President Wen Jiaobao has promised to promote the urbanization of rural cites and restructure the Hukou in the next few years and has started by loosening the requirements for the Hukou, but keeping in place the rule that rural land must be returned once a Rural Hukou is given up in exchange for a Urban one.
Wednesday
Guanzhou residents unwilling to relinquish Rural Hukou in exchange for Urban Hukou
More than 30,000 migrant workers in Guanzhou in 2009 have been eligible to transfer their Hukou status from an rural one to an urban one, but less than 200 of them have actually gone through the motions of changing it. Hu, one Xiaoyan, one of these residents, stipulates the reason as the plots of land that they own in their hometowns being taken away once they request Urban Hukou. Another, Jiao Tianyin, says that he earns nearly 4000 extra Yuan per year as he can lease out the land for 100 yuan for one mu of farmland, and 30-50 Yuan for agricultural machinery with bonuses in food supplies. With this, if Jiao is without a job, he can at least fend for himself.
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