China’s new leaders are planning a system of national residence permits to replace the household registration or ‘hukou’ regime, a government source said, a vital reform that will boost its urbanization campaign and drive consumption-led growth.
The hukou system, which dates to 1958, has split China’s 1.3 billion people along urban-rural lines, preventing many of the roughly 800 million Chinese who are registered as rural residents from settling in cities and enjoying basic urban welfare and services.
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John Ruwitch and Hui Li, Reuters via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/mVTHaTblmMY/
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