China’s migrant population has reached 150 million, 11.5 percent of the total, and the country has been experiencing the world’s largest population flow, with the number of migrants doubled in the past 10 years. More than 80 percent of migrants are rural people seeking jobs in cities, who would remain the majority of floating population for a long time. Last year, China’s migrant women of child-bearing age totaled 31.9 million. About 83 percent of newborn migrant babies registered in their hometown and were given birth certificates. The large amount of migrants has caused a lot of problem and arouses people’s attention to settle the migrants properly.

Migrant workers eased cities’ shortage of labor force and the pressure of aging population, but meanwhile posed challenges to the city’s public administration and services, especially birth control. Birth control and other issues concerning migrant workers are crucial to China’s overall family planning and the building of a new socialist countryside and a harmonious society. The commissions have urged local governments to ensure funding and personnel for family planning and improve services for migrants, and cover the family planning of migrants in future urban public administration and service system. I think that our country’s migrant’s policy will become better and more humanistic, as the proceeding of laws reform.

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