'Temporary couples' rise among migrant workers
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E-mail Xinhua, March 11, 2013
But some consider it degenerate. "Don't make excuses for the anomic," "leticia_liu" posted on Weibo.
Li Changping, a rural expert from Hebei University, said one solution to this problem is to accelerate the reform of China's household registration system, which exclude migrant workers from having the same access to public services as urban citizens. The disparity understandably discourages many migrants from bringing their families with them as they search for work.
Migrant workers are not included in health care and other social security systems in their workplaces, and their children can not sit college entrance exams away from where they are registered.
Dang Guoying also urged the government to make more efforts in promoting sound urbanization, bringing down the surging house prices and apply public resources to all urban residents.
At the opening of China's ongoing NPC annual session earlier this month, Premier Wen Jiabao promised to speed up reform of the household registration system and create a fair environment for people to migrate, settle down and work.
"'Temporary couples' will disappear on the premise of an improved quality of urbanization," according to Dang.
