Hukou System

As China’s gig economy booms, the government is pushing to expand social security coverage for these informal workers. 

China aims to dismantle the hukou system and integrate rural migrants into urban economies, but challenges of infrastructure, resources, and social resistance loom large.

China’s hukou system is getting worse, not better.

The forces that drive parents to separate from their children, even temporarily.

Beijing's attempts to push out migrant workers will have economic consequences.

The new policies have limited scope for tenants and much more needs to be done.

An interview with Bradley M. Gardner about China's rural-to-urban migration.

Suzhou has become the first Chinese city to ban the purchase of grave sites by people without a local residency permit.

China wants to grant hukous to 100 million migrants by 2020, but will be slow and selective in its reform.

Top Chinese leadership demanded an initiative to grant hukous to China's unofficial citizens.

If the hukou system reform is to be meaningful, it will have to be delinked from welfare benefits.

Debates over the grueling pre-college exam highlight fundamental issues facing Chinese society.