◥ Guangzhou Panyu District Caibian Second Village Laisui personnel and the staff of the rental house service management workstation are scanning the QR code, so that they can grasp the rental house information and the situation of the renters. Our reporter Ding Yongxun photo
◥ At Yuexiu Vocational Skills Training School in Guangzhou, students in the beauty salon class are observing and studying. The vocational skills training here is also free and open to the registered population and the foreign population. Our reporter Ding Yongxun photo
Our reporters Ding Yongxun, Zhuang Jin and Li Kunsheng
From Shaoguan’s hometown to Guangzhou for 13 years, Chen Weifu, the captain of the urban management team, still lives in an old rental house of 20 square meters. The economic situation is still not affluent. My son, who is studying at university, can only come to see him in a bed with him every weekend, but this does not affect that he and Wu Chungen, secretary-general of Beijing Street Chamber of Commerce in Yuexiu District, who has a car and a house, apply to settle in Guangzhou at the same time.
The street staff told Chen Weifu that because he won the honor of being an outstanding foreign employee in Yuexiu District last year, he has great hope of successfully applying for a Guangzhou hukou this year.
Maybe I can’t help my son pay a down payment for buying a house in Guangzhou like other parents, but if I can settle in Guangzhou smoothly, I can at least solve my son’s hukou problem.
Chen Weifu, 46, is determined to seize this opportunity.
In recent years, the Guangzhou municipal government has repeatedly issued new policies for the integration of people from Guangzhou. Guangzhou, which is famous for its tolerance, is letting more and more people share the fruits of the city’s reform and development with more scientific management and humanized service.
The crack in the door is widening
It is not because Chen Weifu has made any amazing achievements that he won the honor of outstanding foreign workers in Yuexiu District.
As a city manager, this middle-aged man just walked diligently on the streets of his own jurisdiction for 10 years, patrolling four times a day, taking only one day off every week, rain or shine, and he had to go back to his hometown for two days during the Spring Festival. Guangzhou’s Spring Festival flower market is famous at home and abroad. At this time of the year, Chen Weifu has to stay at his post until two in the morning to get off work.
Chen Weifu feels that it is a father’s responsibility to help his son who is still in college to implement the Guangzhou hukou. After all, I can’t give my son too much.
Beijing Street in Yuexiu District, where Chen Weifu works, has always been the center of Guangzhou City in history, with high-quality education and cultural resources very concentrated, with local residents accounting for the majority. "It is probably equivalent to Wangfujing in Beijing. It is difficult to settle here." Huang Jun, head of the Rental Housing Supervision and Guidance Section of Yuexiu District Laisui Personnel Service Administration, said.
Since 2011, Guangzhou has provided 3000 points for migrant workers every year. By 2015, the number of places will increase to 4500. In the same year, Guangzhou also set aside 500 places for private school teachers. In addition, 50 outstanding migrant workers and 150 outstanding migrant workers with skills selected by Guangzhou every year can also go directly to their homes.
There are 16.67 million permanent residents and 8.37 million floating population, with 5,200 households per year. "Although it only opened a crack in the door, it also made more than 8 million people in Guangzhou see the hope of working hard in this city." Huang Jun told Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporter.
In recent years, Guangzhou’s household access channels are still expanding.
Before 2013, the outstanding migrant workers in Guangzhou and the outstanding migrant workers in Guangzhou were just pure honors. However, since 2014, this appraisal has been directly linked to households.
Before 2015, there was a threshold of no more than 45 years old in Guangzhou, and now this restriction has been lifted; In the past, social security was required to be paid for at least 4 years, but it is now reduced to 3 years.
"Guangzhou’s household policy is that one person solves it and the whole family solves it. Together with their lovers and children, it is actually tens of thousands of places every year. " Huang Jun said.
Points can be admitted.
Chen Weifu, who rents a house, strives to enter Guangzhou for his son, and Wu Chungen, secretary-general of Beijing Street Chamber of Commerce in Yuexiu District, who is regarded as a successful person, is no exception. In fact, most people who come to Guangzhou talk about Guangzhou’s integration policy, and they are most concerned about their children’s future.
"I didn’t care about the hukou before. Now the child is three years old and I am anxious to consider his schooling." Wu Chungen, who has been in Guangzhou for 20 years, said.
Guangzhou’s new policy of integration is also in line with relevant needs. On January 4, 2016, the Guangzhou Municipal Government adopted the Action Plan for the Integration of Guangzhou Laisui Personnel (2016-2020), and planned to fully realize the integration of registered and non-registered personnel in five years. Yuexiu District, the core area of the city, and Panyu District, with a large number of migrants, were identified as integration pilots.
During the pilot visits in Yuexiu District and Panyu District, the reporter found that many communities have built "430 classrooms" for children, which are free for children to learn to play after school and before their parents get off work.
Ma Meixia, director of Yuexiu District’s Laisui Bureau, told Xinhua Daily Telegraph that Yuexiu District will introduce a policy of enrolling children of Laisui personnel this year. Panyu district, where migrants gather, has a faster pace.
According to the current policy of Panyu District, all the children of those who meet the four conditions of living in Panyu District and applying for a valid residence (temporary residence permit), working in Guangzhou, paying social insurance in Guangzhou social insurance system, and going through the family planning registration formalities in Panyu District family planning department can apply for admission to public schools in the compulsory education stage.
Gong Zixia from Hunan is the beneficiary of this policy. Reluctant to the homestead of his hometown, Gong Zixia, who has worked in Panyu District for 15 years, has never chosen to apply for settlement. However, with Panyu District’s relaxed points admission policy, her two children are currently studying in nearby public primary schools.
"If there is no point admission policy, they can only go home to be left-behind children now. How can I bear it? " Speaking of the workers who didn’t apply for points for their children, Gong Zixia’s tears flowed down without warning.
Since 2010, Panyu District has provided nearly 21,000 free degrees in public schools in the compulsory education stage for the children of migrant workers from Guangzhou, and 88,000 children of migrant workers from Guangzhou have enrolled in compulsory education schools, of which 45,000 have enrolled in public schools.
As mentioned in the Integration Action Plan, in 2020, Guangzhou will realize that eligible children of non-registered permanent residents will receive nine-year compulsory education and enjoy the same treatment as local registered students.
Laisui Bureau and Rental House
Chen Weifu hopes to stay in Guangzhou after retirement. Chen Weifu, who divorced in his early years, plans to apply for public rental housing after entering Guangzhou to improve the living conditions of his father and son.
Huang Jun can be called the butler of the rental house in Yuexiu District. As the head of the rental housing supervision and guidance section of Yuexiu District Laisui Personnel Service Administration, Huang Jun often laughs at himself as a Laisui personnel. In 2003, Huang Jun resigned from the township government in Changde, Hunan, and came to Guangzhou for development. In 2006, he began to take charge of rental housing management in Yuexiu District. In the past 10 years, the superior unit in his office has changed, and in 2014 it was finally assigned to the name of Laisui Bureau.
"Only Guangzhou in the country has established the Laisui Bureau as a government-level department. It can be seen that the city attaches importance to the foreign population. " Huang Jun said.
Since Laisui Bureau was established, Huang Jun’s work has also changed. "In the past, I thought about how to control the foreign population. Now there are more considerations for overall coordination. There are no standards to study and think about. What are the characteristics of our district and what is the starting point of our work? We have to support the government’s decision-making, and the pressure is much greater. "
In order to provide more scientific management and humanized services, Zeng Kaizhang, director of Guangzhou Laisui Bureau, revealed that the idea of Guangzhou’s "integration plan" is to provide basic public services in an orderly manner with residence permits as the carrier and points system as the means.
Panyu District took the lead in launching the intelligent service management network for people coming to Guangzhou and rental houses, which is a typical case.
Panyu District has a total of 170,000 rented houses and 909,000 sets, which is one of the most densely populated areas in Guangzhou. In 2012, Panyu established a star management system for rental housing safety. According to fire control, public security, epidemic prevention and honesty, the residential rental houses in the whole region are divided into star class, supervision class and key supervision class.
"Tenants who rent different star-rated rental houses will have different levels of points, and they can cash in the corresponding public services with points." Zhang Yingying, director of Panyu District Laisui Personnel Service Administration Office, introduced. At present, the public services that foreigners in Panyu District can cash in with points include 23 social services and preferential items such as admission, medical treatment, employment, training and entertainment provided by 13 government functional departments and enterprises. In the integral project of applying for compulsory education in Panyu District, the points obtained by renting the highest-grade 3-star rental house for 5 years are the same as those who own their own property.
This move in Panyu District has solved many difficult problems in rental housing management.
In November, 2014, Guangzhou issued a circular, requiring non-local people to come to Guangzhou, and they should report and register with the local street, community and other administrative agencies within three working days from the date of arrival at their place of residence. Housing lessors, properties, intermediaries and employers also have the responsibility to assist in registration.
At that time, public opinion believed that this was the newly established Laisui Bureau’s sense of existence: the policy of requiring migrants to actively register was neither close to the people nor feasible.
However, when social public services closely related to the interests of employees in Guangzhou are linked to rental housing management, this problem is solved.
After registration, not only the tenant can get points, but also the landlord can get points, and then exchange them for some local public services. As a result, the "evil law", which was originally accused of damaging Guangzhou’s tolerance and was purely superfluous, became the "good governance" that the staff of Guangzhou took the initiative to abide by.
The reporter saw in Caibian No.2 Village, Donghuan Street, Panyu District that the administrator of the service management workstation basically mastered all kinds of information about 3,651 sets of rental houses and more than 1,000 sets of shops in the village. Lin Xionghui, the manager of the rental house, said: "There is a QR code in front of each rental house. After the administrator scans with the APP on the mobile phone, the personal information of the tenant, whether the tenant has applied for a residence permit and the time of the last door-to-door inspection will appear on the mobile phone, which is very convenient. "
From fishing to the owner of the city
More and more people from Guangzhou began to share the development achievements of Guangzhou. Before the Spring Festival of the Year of the Monkey, some media asked Zeng Kaizhang, director of Guangzhou Laisui Bureau, whether the entry threshold for Guangzhou was too low.
Zeng Kaizhang replied: "Every city has its own characteristics, and Guangzhou’s inclusive characteristics cannot be lost. Even if tolerance brings many people, it will bring the pressure of social management, and we must overcome difficulties. We must not lose the characteristics of tolerance and make tolerance the soft power, competitiveness and city business card of Guangzhou. "
In this regard, Huang Junshen has feelings. Engaged in rental housing management for 10 years, he has dealt with countless people coming to Guangzhou. "When the point-to-household policy was promulgated and everyone came to apply, I found out that, alas, some friends around me didn’t even have a Guangzhou hukou. I really don’t feel this difference at ordinary times. Guangzhou’s acceptance of migrants is much more tolerant than other big cities I have been to. " Huang Jun said.
However, Huang Jun also admitted that this kind of tolerance is also progressive. "In the past, it was not exclusive, and later it was inclusive. Now it is active service and care."
Wan Li ‘an, secretary of the Party branch of migrant workers in Fanao Community, Qiaonan Street, Panyu District, Guangzhou, has the same feeling.
In 1999, Wan Li ‘an came from Huanggang, Hubei Province to work in Panyu, Guangzhou. At that time, locals also liked to call outsiders "fishing for girls" and "fishing for children" and "saying that we have come here to make money in the world".
In those years, migrant workers who didn’t bring temporary residence permits walked on the street, and they were likely to be stopped. People were stuffed into cars and sent to the police station, and it took several days to get out.
"Many people only know that they want to apply for a temporary residence permit when they are arrested." Wan Lian, who is now the vice president of a large property company, said, "Now the government will take the initiative to guide you to apply for a residence permit. You work and live here, and you have guidance on what you need to do. "
The change of the situation of the people coming to Guangzhou comes from the improvement of the understanding of the local government and local residents — — When the foreign population accounts for 50% of the permanent population in a city, the non-registered population has long been an indispensable part.
In 2015, Guangzhou’s GDP reached 1.8 trillion yuan, surpassing that of Hong Kong, China. Peng Peng, vice president of Guangdong Institute of Comprehensive Reform and Development, said in an interview that the total GDP of Guangzhou is based on a large number of migrants.
In Caibian Second Village, Donghuan Street, Panyu, local residents have a deep understanding of this. The permanent population of Caibian No.2 village reached 8,000 at the peak, while the registered population was only 1,400. The local people can earn a lot of income by renting houses. However, with the relocation of large factories such as Olympus nearby, the whole village suddenly lost two or three thousand people, and the local landlord’s purse also shrank a lot.
Wan Lian said: "In the past, local people thought that migrant workers came to Guangzhou to seize resources. Now most people realize that we are here to serve. During the Chinese New Year, all the foreigners went home, and immediately the whole Panyu felt deserted. You want to decorate, no one; You want to send a courier, and no one comes to your door … … Nowadays, many types of work are undertaken by foreigners. You see that the dry sanitation, shoe repair and sewing are all foreigners. "
In the view of Ma Meixia, director of Yuexiu District Laisui Bureau, a native of Guangzhou, the atmosphere in Guangzhou is getting better and better, and the gap between locals and migrant workers is getting less and less.
Ma Meixia introduced that at this year’s Yuexiu District People’s Congress meeting, NPC deputies from enterprises welcomed Guangzhou’s settlement policy and children’s enrollment policy, and asked the staff of Guangzhou Bureau to go to their company for publicity. "We came to Guangzhou Bureau to help local enterprises retain talents." Ma Meixia said.
Wu Chungen, who has a successful career, was elected as the party representative of Yuexiu District in May 2011. "As a migrant worker, it is a very high political honor to be a representative of the constituency." Li Xingwang, director of Beijing Street Floating Population and Rental Housing Management Service Center in Yuexiu District, Henan Province, said.
Tolerance and feedback
Recently, Huang Jun was thinking about a new batch of poster slogans of Laisui Bureau in Yuexiu District. Reasoning or "peace of mind is hometown" is the most appropriate sentence. "Our job is to make the staff in Guangzhou feel at ease." He said.
Guangzhou has always had a tradition of tolerance. Luo Hong, a professor at Guangzhou University who has been studying Lingnan culture for a long time, believes that Guangzhou people like to call their city Yangcheng, and the sculpture of Wuyang with grain ears is the totem of the city. However, we should know that in history, Guangzhou neither produced sheep nor millet, which is a strong proof that Lingnan area has absorbed the northern farming civilization.
Walking in the commercial street of Yuexiu District in the center of Guangzhou, you can’t tell whether any pedestrian is a local or a foreigner. When passing through the peasant movement workshop of the local key cultural relics protection unit, the staff of the local Guangzhou Bureau suddenly thought: "Chairman Mao was also a Guangzhou worker."
Wu Chungen, who quit his hometown civil servant in Anhui 20 years ago to work in Guangzhou, has a deep feeling of tolerance and diversity in Guangzhou. When he first came to Guangzhou, he made up his mind to learn Cantonese well. Later, he found that both his own team and the people he dealt with had it all over the country. "After learning Cantonese, I found it basically useless."
Guangzhou is tolerant and serves the people who come to Guangzhou, and more foreigners are also giving back to this city with open arms to them.
Wu Shengguo of Nanjiao Village Neighborhood Committee of Qiaonan Street in Panyu District was demobilized from the army in 2011 and worked as a rental house administrator. Several local villagers caught fire at home, and Wu Shengguo rushed to the front line with a fire extinguisher. "After the fire was extinguished, he was covered in ash and came back silently."
Aunt Zhao from Shijiazhuang was transferred to Guangzhou in 1995 because her husband was a local. Today, retired, she is the head of a large community elderly art troupe in Panyu. There are more than 80 people under his command, two-thirds of whom are foreigners and one-third are locals.
Last year, Aunt Zhao led the art troupe to give more than 70 performances, including condolences to local nursing homes. Aunt Zhao plans to teach the members to learn a few Cantonese songs and perform some vernacular programs in 2016, so that the members can integrate into Guangzhou more deeply.
Ma Meixia has been exposed to many stories of migrant workers in Guangzhou since she became the director of the Guangzhou Bureau of Yuexiu District. What impressed her most was the post-80s Ma Xiaochun, who was selected into China’s list of good people.
On November 22nd, 2014, Ma Xiaochun found a messenger bag with 106,000 yuan in cash at the subway station, and immediately called the police to find the owner. The owner who hurried back offered 10,000 yuan as a reward, but she declined it on the spot. Later, the owner went to great lengths to find Ma Xiaochun’s work unit to express his gratitude, but the girl from Xiangyang rural area said, "I didn’t want him to repay me when I returned the money. After a girl came to Guangzhou, too many people helped me, and they didn’t ask for anything in return. A person who helped me once told me, ‘ In the future, if you have an opportunity, help others ’ . I just do what they do. "
