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 ...

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 ...

Zhengzhou, a city of over 12 million people, has become the first big Chinese city to end residency requirements known as the hukou in an attempt to stabilize the real estate market and attract ...

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 ...

What began in the early days of the PRC as a regulatory means to ensure that enough rural labor stayed where it was needed to work the fields, China’s household registration, or hukou system, has long ...

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 ...

As a new school year begins, China’s education gap remains sizable despite recent reform packages aimed at making access more equitable. As promised following last year’s Third Plenum, changes to ...

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 ...

Last week China put some flesh on the bones of its plans to reform its hukou, or household-registration, system, which determines where people can settle based on a series of exacting requirements ...

TWO CHINAS collided on a summer night in Beijing this year when “Little Zhang”, a high-flying young businessman, was summoned for questioning by an elderly neighbour at his housing complex, and asked ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Rachel Brown is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign ...