Villagers pass newly built houses at Yuantun village in Jiaozuo city, Henan province. The province’s urban population accounted for 42.2 percent of its total population at the end of 2012, a year-on-year rise of 1.8 percentage points. [Photo/Xinhua]
Premier Wen Jiabao called for efforts in his Government Work Report on Tuesday to advance urbanization "actively yet prudently" by speeding up reform of the household registration system.