Guangzhou plans migrant integration

Five communities have been chosen as pilot areas in a plan to integrate migrant workers with local residents in Guangzhou, Guandong province.

Migrants will be invited to join local Party branches and participate in administration, discussion, construction and other affairs of local communities in Baiyun, Yuexiu and Panyu districts, where a large number of migrant workers live.

Meanwhile, children from migrant worker families in the pilot areas will be able to attend primary and high schools by 2020, the plan said. Migrant workers do not currently enjoy the same treatment as their urban counterparts who have household registration, or hukou, in education, medical treatment, social security employment and related fields.