The term "hukou reform" has more or less become a catchphrase in the Chinese media and among China's policymakers. Premier Wen Jiabao has said the government will steadily advance the reform of the ...

The reform of the housing registration, or hukou system, has been under way in most regions in China following the State Council's call to establish a unified household registration system for urban ...

The hukou system is a governmental household registration system. In Taiwan, this system operates mostly as census tool, providing demographic information about residents in each region. In China ...

With graduation season approaching, many college graduates still hesitate about their next move. For many, a job providing a Beijing hukou, which offers a residence permit and a number of social ...

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 ...

A murky trade thrives as quotas tightened, reports He Na in Beijing. Beijing's efforts to strictly curb population growth have boosted the black market trade in hukou, permanent residency permits.

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Shanghai has launched a new points-based residency permit system, in an effort to speed up the reformation of hukou (household registration) system, which is being pushed by the central government.

Liu Zhe is a graduate of one of China’s top universities, a father of two in his early 40s with a highly paid job in financial services who has lived in Beijing for the past six years. But until ...

The promise of a better education and higher paid job attracts tens of thousands of young Chinese to the capital, Beijing, each year. But, increasingly strict policies on residency permits are pushing ...

A man looks at signs showing the personal profiles of people looking for spouses during a matchmaking event for middle-aged singles and seniors, sponsored by Shanghai's government, in Shanghai. | ...

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 ...