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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China's system of household registration, or hukou, makes it very difficult for migrants to gain access to urban education and health care.

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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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