Chengdu government officials announced Tuesday that the city will switch to a united household registration system between the city and its countryside in 2012. People will be allowed to migrate freely while enjoying equal public service and social benefits.
Chengdu government officials announced Tuesday that the city will switch to a united household registration system between the city and its countryside in 2012, Chinanews.com.cn reports. People will be allowed to migrate freely while enjoying equal public service and social benefits. A management system for residents' information, including residences, status of marriage and family members, employment, taxation, credit and social insurance, will be set up in 2012. People will be identified by their ID numbers and registered according to their legal residence.
China to take part in ICP
China will participate in the International Comparison Program for the first time, in 2011, Beijing Times reports. ICP is an international statistics cooperation program. Its main purpose is to calculate the purchasing power parity (PPP) of each currency and use PPP as the conversion coefficient to make various countries' GDP on the same currency unit. Therefore, the real economic scale and structures of each country can be compared. From January 2011, around 180 countries and regions will start the ICP investigation. The program ends in late 2013.