Abstract
Compared with urban residents, great inequality exists as to the rights of farm laborers. Chinese Government has made great efforts to achieve equal rights for farmers. Farmers’ equal rights have got a lot of qualitative leap: the agricultural tax exemption, the rural and urban tax fairness; exempt from compulsory education fees, to achieve equality in education; establishing a new rural cooperative medical care, to achieve equal health insurance rights; establishing a sound social security system in rural areas, to achieve equal social security rights; amending the electoral law, to achieve equal voting rights. Due to historical reasons, there are still some problems and obstacles, such as a big gap in the urban-rural income and consumption, and uneven distribution of public resources in urban and rural areas. The government should reform rural household registration system in-depth, promote urban-rural integration to achieve the equalization of allocation of public resources, to ensure equal rights for farmers.
Highlights
Compared with urban residents, great inequality exists as to the rights of farm laborers
After the reform and opening up, especially after entering the new century, the Chinese government has made a great effort to achieve equal rights for farmers and the equal rights of farmers have achieved a lot of qualitative leap, but there are still some problems to be solved
The rights enjoyed by Chinese farmers in all aspects of political, economic, social and cultural relatively exists large gap and inequality, such as unfair taxation, education inequality, life and health inequalities, social security inequality, unequal voting rights, etc
Summary
The report of Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China stressed again that properly Solve agriculture, rural areas and farmers’ problem is a top priority of the party’s work. Citizens enjoying equal rights, is an important aspect of social justice, what is more, it is the government goal. Chinese farmers and urban residents have significant inequalities in fundamental rights, especially the right to education, the right to health insurance, social security, the enjoyment of the right to vote, etc. After the reform and opening up, especially after entering the new century, the Chinese government has made a great effort to achieve equal rights for farmers and the equal rights of farmers have achieved a lot of qualitative leap, but there are still some problems to be solved. To explore the history and reality of the Chinese farmers’ equal rights gradually realizing, and Envisioning its future development, has important theoretical and practical significance
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