Chinese economists are urging the government to reform hukou — an archaic residency registration system set up decades ago under Mao to stop the mass migration of rural Chinese into cities. Several ...

This year's Central Economic Work Conference could be historic. If its decision were effectively implemented, the half-century-old hukou system could be history. Set up in 1958 as part of the ...

Since the early 1980s, hundreds of millions of migrants have entered urban areas without full urban status. In conjunction with local industries these migrants put increasing pressure on the state to ...

On Wednesday, the Chinese government announced plans to reform the country’s controversial hukou or household registration system. Although the reforms promise a unified system for both urban and ...

The central authorities recently said China will implement the system of providing basic public services based on the number of people with permanent residence permits, promote migrant workers to ...

Yes it’s true - hukou (household registration) reform is again back in vogue in China’s ‘post-crisis’ conversations. Premier Wen Jiabao has been talking about it and, unusually the catch phrase has ...

Rachel Brown is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. This is the first part of a series on migration trends in China and India. However, signs of a new commitment ...

China Dialogue has republished a Caixin editorial from June outlining the benefits that overhauling the hukou household registration system would have towards urbanization—a key economic engine ...

China’s netizens are usually cheerleaders for nationalist causes. So the recent showering of praise on Vietnam by some of them has been striking. A bout of it occurred last month when exaggerated news ...

Suzhou has become the first Chinese city to ban the purchase of grave sites by people without a local residency permit. Credit: Flickr/ shankar s. Parts of China are facing a strange but completely ...

A joint editorial in 13 mainland newspapers has called on the nation's top legislative body to abolish the hukou system - strict population controls that have split the country into rural and urban ...