Deploy efforts to serve migrant workers and orderly advance the citizenization of agricultural transfer population
　　Discuss the 'Interim Regulations on Real Estate Registration (Draft for Comments)' and decide to solicit public opinions
　　Determine to release urban survey unemployment rate data for large cities in due course to better serve economic and social development
　　Premier Li Keqiang chaired a State Council executive meeting on July 30, deploying efforts to serve migrant workers and orderly advance the citizenization of agricultural transfer population; discussing the 'Interim Regulations on Real Estate Registration (Draft for Comments)' and deciding to solicit public opinions; and determining to release urban survey unemployment rate data for large cities in due course to better serve economic and social development.
　　The meeting pointed out that migrant workers are an important component of industrial workers and have made tremendous contributions to China's economic and social development. Adapting to the requirements of synchronized development of the 'new four modernizations', being people-oriented, and reforming and innovating to further improve services for migrant workers will help cultivate a new army of higher-quality labor supporting industrial transformation and upgrading, promote a new group to expand consumption, and create new citizens who participate in urban development and share the fruits of development, thus advancing social fairness and justice and sustained and healthy economic development. First, promote employment and entrepreneurship of migrant workers. Implement vocational skills upgrading plans, encourage localities to renovate and expand vocational and technical schools that enroll rural students, and strive to enable rural junior and senior high school graduates who have not entered regular high schools or universities to receive vocational education. Develop the service industry and small and medium-sized enterprises, and create jobs suitable for migrant workers. Use supportive policies such as fiscal support, venture capital guidance, small guaranteed loans and interest subsidies, and production and operation sites to promote migrant workers' entrepreneurship. Second, safeguard the labor security rights and interests of migrant workers. Implement a wage guarantee system in the construction sector and other industries prone to wage arrears, explore the establishment of an emergency revolving fund system for wage arrears, and implement the system of overall responsibility of general contracting enterprises for the payment of migrant workers' wages, the linkage between labor security supervision and law enforcement and criminal justice to address malicious wage arrears, and the system of local governments taking overall responsibility for resolving wage arrears. Ensure equal pay for equal work for migrant workers and urban employees. Open 'green channels' for migrant workers' labor dispute arbitration and improve arbitration efficiency. Third, deepen the reform of the basic public service supply system, and promote qualified and willing migrant workers and their families to settle in cities in an orderly manner and enjoy basic public services equally. Public compulsory education schools should be open to the children accompanying migrant workers. Include migrant workers in the scope of community health and family planning services, gradually include willing migrant workers in the urban employee basic pension and basic medical insurance, and gradually expand the housing security and provident fund systems to cover migrant workers. Fourth, strengthen public cultural services for migrant workers, and promote free and equal access to sports, cultural and other facilities for migrant workers. The meeting emphasized that serving migrant workers is of overall importance. It is necessary to focus on promoting the orderly integration of migrant workers who have long resided in cities and have relatively stable jobs into urban areas, and care for and help flexibly employed migrant workers, so that hundreds of millions of migrant workers have jobs, living security, and a spiritual home.
　　The meeting believed that establishing a unified real estate registration system is an effective measure to advance streamlining administration and delegating power, integrate departmental functions and responsibilities, reduce duplicated management, gradually achieve one-window services, facilitate enterprises and the public, and lower entrepreneurial costs. The meeting discussed the 'Interim Regulations on Real Estate Registration (Draft for Comments)' and emphasized that already issued title certificates remain valid, and legally enjoyed real estate rights are not affected by changes in registration agencies and procedures. The meeting decided that, in accordance with legislative procedures, the draft for comments will be made public for soliciting opinions, and then related legal amendments will be advanced.
　　The meeting pointed out that ensuring employment is an important responsibility of the government and also a 'lower limit' for people's livelihood that must be ensured in range-based regulation. Collecting unemployment rate data through scientific sample surveys can better monitor employment conditions and guide greater attention to employment-generating growth. After several years of exploration, conditions are now in place for China to release and use urban survey unemployment rate data. The meeting determined to expand the statistical scope of the survey unemployment rate, improve methods, and have the statistical department release survey unemployment rate data for large cities in due course in accordance with the law, so as to reflect unemployment conditions more comprehensively and dynamically, let society and the public understand the economic and social development situation in a timely manner, make macroeconomic decision-making more 'well-informed', and provide support for promoting relatively full employment.
　　The meeting also studied other matters.
　　Related reading: 'Real Estate Registration' timetable
　　March 28, 2013
　　The General Office of the State Council issued a notice on the division of tasks for implementing the 'Plan for Institutional Reform and Functional Transformation of the State Council', stipulating that real estate registration regulations should be issued before the end of June 2014.
　　November 20, 2013
　　The State Council executive meeting explicitly proposed for the first time that the Ministry of Land and Resources be responsible for guiding and supervising the unified national real estate registration duties, unifying real estate registration responsibilities into one department.
　　February 24, 2014
　　With the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Land and Resources led nine departments to establish an inter-ministerial joint conference system for real estate registration work, with Minister of Land and Resources Jiang Daming serving as convener.
　　May 14, 2014
　　Minister of Land and Resources Jiang Daming chaired the 12th ministerial office meeting, striving to submit the 'Real Estate Registration Regulations (Draft for Review)' before the end of June and complete legislation within the year.
　　Inter-ministerial joint conference system, four unifications of real estate registration
　　On May 8, 2014, the Ministry of Land and Resources added a plaque for the Real Estate Registration Bureau to the Department of Cadastral Management.
　　Formulate the 'Real Estate Registration Regulations' and related laws and regulations. The 'Real Estate Registration Regulations' was originally scheduled to be issued before the end of June this year, but is estimated to be delayed until legislation is completed within the year. The Ministry of Land and Resources has deployed relevant departments to draft the 'Implementation Measures for the Real Estate Registration Regulations'.
　　Formulate unified registration documents such as forms, cards, books, and certificates. Accelerate rural cadastral surveys and rural land ownership confirmation, registration, and certification, and properly connect with unified real estate registration.
　　Based on the national land registration information dynamic supervision and query system, build a basic platform for unified real estate registration information management and a query service system.
　　Transfer of real estate registration duties
　　Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development
　　Responsible for building the personal housing information system (undertaken work)
　　Assist the Ministry of Land and Resources in guiding housing registration work (assisting work)
　　No longer undertake duties such as paid transfer and development and utilization of urban land use rights (reduced duties)
　　Ministry of Agriculture
　　Rural land contractual management rights will be included in unified real estate registration with a five-year transition period. During the transition period, the Ministry of Agriculture, together with the Ministry of Land and Resources and other departments, will be responsible for guiding the unified registration of rural land contractual management rights; after the transition period, the Ministry of Land and Resources will be responsible for guiding the registration of rural land contractual management rights (reduced duties)
　　Ministry of Land and Resources
　　Guide and supervise national real estate registration work including land registration, housing registration, forest land registration, grassland registration, and sea area registration (added duties)
　　Draft draft laws and regulations on unified real estate registration together with relevant departments (added duties)
　　Establish a unified real estate registration system and formulate policies for mediating real estate ownership disputes (added duties)
　　Advance the construction of the basic platform for real estate registration information (added duties)
　　State Forestry Administration
　　Cooperate with the Ministry of Land and Resources in carrying out registration and certification of forests, trees, and forest land in key state-owned forest areas (from leading to cooperating)
　　Cooperate with the Ministry of Land and Resources in guiding local forest rights registration and other work (assisting work)
　　State Oceanic Administration
　　Assist the Ministry of Land and Resources in carrying out registration of sea area use rights and uninhabited island use rights for projects approved by the State Council (assisting work)
　　Assist the Ministry of Land and Resources in guiding local implementation of registration and recording of sea area and uninhabited island use rights (assisting work)