The Income Distribution Reform Plan Is Still Improving

According to media reports recently, the draft of income distribution reform led by the National Development and Reform Commission is nearing completion, while policy makers prefer the field of primary distribution.

A person from the National Development and Reform Commission said in an interview with the First Financial Daily yesterday that the details of the plan still need to be improved. As for whether to solve the income gap through primary distribution or redistribution, there is no final conclusion.

A consensus has been reached on how to solve the problem of income distribution. At present, the opinions of core experts in this field in China are still difficult to unify.

　　 Start with primary distribution or redistribution?

"On the whole, the most important thing to solve income distribution is the primary distribution, and the core of the primary distribution is to expand employment and establish good labor relations. On this basis, further improvement can be achieved through secondary distribution." Cai Fang, director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview with our reporter at the press conference of the "China Social Sciences Forum" yesterday, For solving the problem of income distribution, he tends to start from the initial distribution.

Zheng Gongcheng, a professor of Renmin University of China, said in an interview with our reporter that income distribution reform should strengthen redistribution. The main reason is that compared with redistribution, primary distribution involves more complex issues, not only the government, labor and capital, but also a series of issues such as employment and economic growth.

"At present, the problem of income distribution has improved. In recent years, China's employment growth and labor mobility have maintained a rapid speed. Therefore, continue to expand employment, so that the income distribution of workers can be better improved." Cai Fang said.

In his view, China's income growth is very fast in the world. In the past 10 years, the per capita income in urban areas has increased by nearly 10%, while that in rural areas is slightly lower. On the whole, the growth of per capita income in urban and rural areas has basically kept pace, just because the development of rural areas has lagged behind, and the development is not at the same level.

　　 The income statistics of floating population should be accurate

While calling for reform of income distribution, attention should also be paid to how to make accurate statistics.

Liu Jian (not his real name), who lives in the countryside, has been engaged in the IT industry in Beijing for seven years, earning more than 10000 yuan a month. However, he is still marked as "unemployed" in the occupation column of the local Hukou in Hunan.

Similar to Liu Jian, the number of people who work in cities from rural areas after graduation from university has become larger and larger, but their income status can not be fully shown in the national income distribution statistics.

The relevant personage of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences pointed out that at present, the judgment on how big the income gap is lacks statistical truth.

In the current statistics of our country, the increased income of rural population brought by population mobility, whether in rural or urban population income information collection, part of the information of this part of the group can not be counted.

"The narrowing of the urban-rural income gap is mainly solved by the flow of urban and rural population. Without statistics, there is no way to judge the change of the urban-rural income gap." Cai Fang said that to find the factors and ways to really narrow the urban-rural gap, we should take the reform of the household registration system as a breakthrough. At present, the flow of labor force is still the flow of people, and there is no flow of identity change.