Plans to end a controversial residency permit system have been welcomed as a positive step towards bridging the social, political and economic gulf between China’s countryside and its cities.
The hukou system of household registration has for decades discriminated against the nation’s 800 million rural inhabitants, by depriving them of most of the rights enjoyed by those born in urban areas.
China rethinks peasant ‘apartheid’ – Tim Luard
Posted by Sophie Beach | Nov 10, 2005