It started in August 2006. On August 2 1, the Yanta District Committee and the District Government of Xi jointly issued the Notice on Standardizing the Appellation of "New Citizen", which marked that "New Citizen" has become the new appellation of 400,000 migrant workers and migrant workers in Yanta District. This document requires that from now on, the terms "floating population", "migrant workers", "migrant workers" and "migrant workers" should be standardized as "new citizens". In the future, all kinds of documents, reports, materials, speeches and oral speeches in Yanta District will use "new citizens".
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Yanta District has also established the "Yanta District New Citizen Assistance Service Center" and introduced specific measures to help the "new citizens" in their work and life. The aid service center provides "new citizens" with legal aid, children's schooling, medical care and employment guidance. At the same time, the fund of "new citizen" rescue service center will be established to provide some assistance to "new citizens" whose families have suffered from natural and man-made disasters, resulting in heavy economic losses and unsustainable life, as well as "new citizens" whose children are facing dropping out of school due to work-related injuries and family difficulties.
Children of "new citizens" enter school according to the principle of nearest school, and are directly registered in public schools in the school district according to their temporary residence. If all public schools in the school district can't accommodate it, the district education bureau will transfer it to the public schools in the adjacent school district, and the school fees will be implemented according to the students' fees in Yanta District, enjoying the same preferential treatment.
Yanta District also named 12 hospitals such as Xi 'an tongji hospital, Xi 'an Heping Hospital and Shaanxi Red Cross Hospital as "designated hospitals for medical assistance services for new citizens". In the future, all "new citizens" who come here for treatment with the approval of the rescue service center will be exempted from registration fees and medical treatment fees for common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases and specialized diseases that hospitals are good at; 30% discount for laboratory tests, B-ultrasound, electrocardiogram, X-ray examination, treatment and surgery; There is a 50% discount on the bed fee for inpatients.
At the same time, Yanta District has hired 10 legal advisers to provide legal aid to "new citizens". The labor department provides free consultation on labor security policies and regulations for "new citizens"; Establish a "new citizen" vocational skills training center to provide free vocational guidance and safety education and training; Free access to the district labor resources database for registration, free access to employment information, and free participation in the monthly job fair organized by the district labor bureau.
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The action of Yanta District has aroused great repercussions in Xi 'an, and more and more units have devoted themselves to the "new citizen" movement. Xi Labor and Social Security Bureau, Xi 'an University of Arts and Sciences and the influential local newspaper Huashang Daily soon launched a "new citizen college class" for migrant workers, aiming at providing them with a high-level education. With hundreds of people signing up, 54 migrant workers from all over the country finally started their studies with notices.
According to the person in charge of Xi 'an University of Arts and Sciences, the "new citizen" university class is free. The teaching time is Saturday and Sunday every week, and the study time is one year. For these "special students", Xi University of Arts and Sciences has designed special courses. In addition to offering basic cultural courses and English courses, it is mainly to help them better integrate into urban practical courses, such as personal career planning, personal entrepreneurship guidance, investment and financial management, mental health and debugging, social etiquette, public relations and interpersonal relationships, and urban risk avoidance. These courses are leading and exploratory all over the country. "New citizen" college students enjoy the same public resources as other students in the university campus and take the unified examination of the school. Those who pass the examination can get the certificate of completion issued by Xi 'an University of Arts and Sciences.
In addition to Xi, many cities in China also set off a "new citizen" craze. Some cities in Shenyang, Changchun and the Yangtze River Delta have proposed to treat migrant workers as "new citizens" and try their best to eliminate all kinds of unreasonable treatment and discrimination against them.
62 children of new citizens in Lianhu District of Xi received grants.