100 million Chinese to get greater city benefits in crucial reform

Chinese migrant workers walk in a village of rural-urban fringe zone in rural Qingdao city, eastern China's Shandong province, March 6, 2014. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced a bold plan on 05 March to grant urban residency to around 100 million rural people who have moved to cities, rebuild rundown city areas and villages inside cities - EPA Photo.

BEIJING: More than 100 million urban migrants in China are to be given vital documents making them officially residents of the country's cities under a broad urbanisation plan that is crucial for economic growth.

China's new leaders, under President Xi Jinping who took office a year ago, have touted "people-centred urbanisation" to raise the quality of life as well as just growth rates.