The mission possible

The task to gradually incorporate farmer-turned-workers as real urban citizens in the cities where they work is not just a step forward to expedite the pace of urbanization. It will be an effort to address the injustice this group of people has long suffered.

The conference on rural and agricultural work that concluded last Monday made it one of the important missions of the central government to incorporate rural migrant workers with permanent jobs into the urban public welfare system. Those who get household registrations as urban citizens will enjoy the same social security as their urban counterparts do.

This good news is long overdue for more than 200 million migrant workers, whose contributions in the past decades have made it possible for the country's economy and urbanization to witness rapid growth.