In 2005, public security agencies adopted more measures on reforms, worked with further efforts in issuing the second generation of residential ID cards, upgraded the level of administration on floating population so as to better serve the economic development of the society.

More active measures were taken on the reforms of the residential registration administration. Public security agencies actively took measures to adapt to the national economic and social development, made further changes on the regulations on transferring residential registration records, had less policy control on issuing permanent residency in cities. Police agencies had an all-out residential registration administration reform in small towns with the requirement that as long as one has a fixed legal domicile, a regular job or income, he could be considered as a permanent resident of areas which are county-level cities, the capitals of the counties or the small towns below county level. Residential policy in favor of university graduates who voluntarily choose to work in remote and poor western areas has been implemented and new policies encouraging university graduates to work in small-and-media-sized enterprises and private enterprises have come out.