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.
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.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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