Lacking a koseki (household registration), foreigners on temporary visas working illegally can get no social services.
Yet to do that, Chinese leaders will need to liberalize restrictions, such as the hukou household registration system.
One of the greatest issues for China's 250 million migrant workers is the "hukou" system of household registration.
China's system of household registration, or hukou, makes it very difficult for migrants to gain access to urban education and health care.
After watching the household registration system erode in the face of market reforms, China in July approved a serious overhaul of the system.
Abuse of the hukou, or household registration system, gets widespread attention.
Worse still, the system of household registration, or hukou, defines even long-staying urban migrants as rural residents, cutting them out of housing, education and other benefits.
That is the earliest possible repeal of the country's household registration system, or hukou, which limits the access of rural migrants to public services in the cities where they work and live.
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"The repeated exposure of hukou counterfeiting scandals in recent months is convincing evidence that the country's household registration system is riddled with problems and needs to be streamlined, " says the China Daily.
In China's system of household registration (known as hukou), children born to rurally registered parents count as rural, even if their parents have migrated to the city, and regardless of where they themselves were born.
Rothman added that he was confident in Beijing managing a slower growth rate while making essential reforms to a household registration system that deters migrants from settling in cities and trying to join the middle class.
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Gong Aiai, a former banker, nicknamed "House Sister" for allegedly buying 41 flats in Beijing with fake hukou, or household registration identities, is in police custody in Shaanxi on suspicion of forgery, Beijing Times reports.
Critics also point out that the social-housing programme will mostly benefit urban residents, whose household-registration certificates, or hukou, identify them as city residents.
Ms Gong was nicknamed the "elder sister of property" for allegedly buying 41 properties in the capital using fake hukou, or household-registration identities.
China's household-registration system denies equal access to public services for rural migrants, who work in the cities but are registered in the villages.
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