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The ‘Invisible Wall’ Amplifying China’s Population Doom Loop
which since the 1950s has divided the population into rural or urban and makes it hard for rural workers to take their children with them. Described as an invisible wall, the hukou system was set ...
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How a Mao-era system creates second-class citizens in modern China
“The hukou system has caused me many problems ... introduced in 1958 by Mao Zedong to control population movements into the cities from rural areas. Many scholars believe the government ...
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In Response to Property Crisis, China Studies Fundamental Overhaul
Around two-thirds of people in China live in urban areas, but less than half of the population had an urban hukou as of 2023. That means around 250 million urban residents don’t enjoy full ...
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What does Hukou mean to Chinese living outside China
Associate Professor Bingqin Li from UNSW let us know why Hukou, i.e. China's Household Registration System has come up in the first place. Independent news and stories connecting you to life in ...
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Chinese Government response to inequality for migrant workers
In early 2022, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) called on cities with a population of under three million people to remove hukou restrictions. However, this would not affect ...
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Socio-economic inequality and its impact in China
The hukou system (Household Registration System ... Gender inequality has also had a recognisable effect on China’s population demographics. China's one-child policy was introduced in the ...