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 ...

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 ...

Shanghai is aiming to attract global talent from some of the world’s best universities by immediately granting them the hard-to-get household registration document known as the hukou, as the city ...

Hukou, the Chinese household registration system, is a legacy of the Chinese planned economy that, after over 40 years of reform, still serves as an institutional barrier preventing production factors ...

A district in the southern Chinese megacity of Guangzhou is offering households who purchase a home in the area free access to the local public school system, as Chinese authorities step up attempts ...

During the last four decades, China has undergone a radical change, metamorphosing from a predominantly agrarian nation to a city-centric, economic powerhouse. The Chinese Communist Party has actively ...

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 ...

On his Chinese Law and Politics blog, Carl Minzner writes about proposed reforms to the hukou system in China: Chinese authorities are considering reforms to the Chinese hukou (household registration) ...