Sentences with word «hukou»

With local government officials graded in large part on their ability to generate rapid growth, they largely ignored hukou restrictions and made migration into their cities easy.

In China, rapid growth historically encouraged local officials to ignore hukou restrictions.

Chinese citizens receive an urban or rural hukou which officially identifies them as residents of a specific area and which allows them to live and work only in that area.

Post-1980s, the state relied on hukou, or housing registration, to keep tabs on where people lived, worked, and sent their children to school.

Few if any of the migrant workers affected by the current sweep possess a Beijing hukou.

[iv] Migrants who do not hold a Shanghai hukou send their children back to ancestral regions, even if the kids have never stepped foot in a rural village.

In particular, he overlooked the Chinese hukou, an internal passport system that culls migrant children from Shanghai's student population as they approach the age for PISA sampling, fifteen years old.

It doesn't matter if the child of migrants is born in Shanghai, or even if her parents were, she will still hold a rural hukou.

But the hukou system often broke down when confronted with China's mass urbanization in recent decades, which saw hundreds of millions of migrant workers move into metropolises despite poor access to housing and social services.

If China can reform land ownership, reform the hukou system, enforce a fairer and more predictable legal system on businesses, reduce rent - capturing by oligopolistic elites, reform the financial system (both liberalizing interest rates and improving the allocation of capital), and even privatize assets, 3 - 4 % GDP growth can be accompanied by growth in household income of 5 - 7 %.

Hundreds of millions of workers traveled from their hukou areas to wherever there were jobs, in particular big cities such as Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai.

For this reason, authorities should monitor labor practices carefully and take steps to prevent local officials from heavily enforcing the hukou.

In China, mobility is legally restricted according to a household registration system, called the hukou.

One of the easiest tools the authorities have to manage both problems is to enforce the hukou rules that are already on the books.

The hukou registration system that ties people to their place of ordinary residence deprives migrant workers of rights to welfare, education or property, and prevents them from launching businesses in the cities, where they are treated as second - class citizens.

China has a family registration system called the hukou system for residence in large cities.

According to Shang - Hsiu Koo, CFO of Jiayuan, China's largest online matchmaking website, what users value most in a potential match are education level, age, height and residency (in China, having a residency permit, hukou, in a top - tier city is highly desirable because only those with permits have access to public services and certain employment opportunities in that city).

The hukou system rations public services in China, including education.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have condemned the hukou system for its discriminatory treatment of migrant children.

The hukou creates an apartheid system of education.