The End of China’s Onerous Hukou System
The announcement on July 30 that China will finally overhaul the hereditary household registration system, known as hukou, hopefully eases a system considered to be at the heart of China’s institutional and economic inequality.
It won’t happen immediately and there is some concern on the part of critics that the State Council’s decision is more window dr…
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