The "new citizens" craze for new citizens is rising

2006 may be an important year for many migrant workers in Xi'an. During this year, a wave of "new citizens" led by the government and participated by society has repeatedly set off in this city.

The matter began in August 2006. On August 21, the Yanta District Party Committee and the District Government of Xi'an City jointly issued the "Notice on Regulating the Title of "New Citizens"", marking the " has become the new title for the 400,000 migrant workers and migrant workers in Yanta District. This document requires that from now on, titles such as "migrant population", "migrant workers", "migrant workers" and "migrant workers" will be standardized as "new citizens". From now on, "new citizens" will be used in all kinds of documents, reports, materials, speeches and verbal addresses in Yanta District.

Dayan Pagoda in Xi'an

Yanta District has also established the "Yanta District New Citizen Assistance Service Center" and introduced specific measures to assist "new citizens" with problems that arise in their work and life. Difficulties help. The assistance service center provides assistance to "new citizens" in terms of legal aid, children's schooling, medical treatment, employment guidance, etc. At the same time, a "new citizen" assistance service center fund will be established to provide assistance to "new citizens" whose families have suffered from natural disasters and man-made disasters, causing heavy economic losses and making their lives unsustainable, and to "new citizens" who have been injured or killed at work, have family difficulties, and whose children are facing dropping out of school. The assistance service center will provide certain assistance.

The children of "new citizens" will enroll in schools in accordance with the principle of enrollment in the nearest school district. Children of "new citizens" will enroll directly in public schools in the school district based on their temporary residence. If all public schools in the school district cannot accommodate them, the district education bureau will adjust them to neighboring school districts. For students studying in public schools, the tuition fees will be based on the Yanta District student fees, and students will enjoy the same preferential treatment.

Yanta District has also named 12 hospitals including Xi'an Tongji Hospital, Xi'an Heping Hospital, and Shaanxi Provincial Red Cross Hospital as "Designated Hospitals for New Citizen Medical Assistance Services." From now on, all common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases and specialized diseases that each hospital specializes in for "new citizens" who come here to see a doctor after being approved by the Assistance Service Center will be exempted from registration fees and diagnosis and treatment fees; for laboratory tests, B-ultrasound, electrocardiogram, and X-ray examination , 30% discount on treatment and surgery fees; 50% discount on bed fees for inpatients.

At the same time, Yanta District hired 10 legal consultants to provide legal assistance to "new citizens". The labor department provides free consultation on labor security policies and regulations for "new citizens"; establishes a vocational skills training center for "new citizens" to provide free career guidance and safety production education and training; free registration in the district labor resource database, free employment information, and free Participate in the monthly job recruitment fair held by the District Labor Bureau.

New Citizens

The actions of Yanta District have aroused great repercussions in Xi'an City, and more and more units have invested in the "New Citizens" movement. The Xi'an Municipal Labor and Social Security Bureau, Xi'an University of Arts and Sciences, and the influential local "Huashang News" quickly launched the "New Citizen University Class" activity for migrant workers, aiming to provide them with high-level education. With hundreds of people signing up to participate, 54 migrant workers from all over the country finally started their studies with notices in hand.

According to the relevant person in charge of Xi'an University of Arts and Sciences, the "New Citizen" university classes are taught free of charge on Saturdays and Sundays every week, and the study time is one year. For these "special students", Xi'an University of Arts and Sciences has designed special courses. In addition to basic cultural courses and English courses, they mainly include personal career planning, personal entrepreneurial guidance, investment and financial management, mental health and debugging, social etiquette, and public affairs. * Practical courses such as relationships and interpersonal relationships, urban risk avoidance, etc. to help them better integrate into the city. The setting of these courses is leading and exploratory in the country. "New Citizen" college students enjoy the same public resources as other students on the university campus, and they take the school's unified examination. Those who pass the exam can receive a completion certificate issued by Xi'an University of Arts and Sciences.

In addition to Xi'an, many cities in China have also launched a wave of "new citizens".

Shenyang, Changchun and some cities in the Yangtze River Delta have proposed treating migrant workers as "new citizens" and trying their best to eliminate all kinds of unreasonable treatment and discrimination against them.

62 children of new citizens in Xi’an’s Lianhu District received scholarships