Media highlights

"China's newest urban residents - its migrant workers - have jobs to sustain themselves. But they are not entitled to the social benefits in the cities they work in."

CNN

"It's highly expected that in the upcoming two sessions, NPC delegates and CPPCC National Committee members will bring about substantial discussions and plans for population urbanization, which means providing rural migrants with the same rights and the same public services urbanites enjoy."

China News Service

"Migrant workers with stable jobs in cities can keep their rural hukou, contracted farmland and personal property and at the same time enjoy the cities' welfare benefits, which are not tied to hukou."

Southern Metropolis Daily

"The country has to input huge financial and human resources in areas such as infrastructure, medical and pension systems to support population urbanization. But this is not a one-way process. With millions of migrant workers becoming urbanites, China will further expand domestic consumption and promote quality growth."

Farmers' Daily

"The government has been highlighting the rights of migrant workers, who have left behind their farms and even families to work in cities amid the country's industrialization and urbanization of recent decades."

Xinhua News Agency

"More progress could be made on rural land reforms at the NPC meeting because rural land reforms are closely related to urbanization, which has been a top priority for Premier Li Keqiang since he took office."

International Business Times

(China Daily 02/28/2014 page3)