China to Loosen Stringent Urban Residency Rules
The State Council has released new guidelines directing local governments to allow migrants from...
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LatestEducation Gap Remains After Hukou, Gaokao Reforms
As a new school year begins, China’s education gap remains sizable despite recent reform...
Drawing the News: Full Moon Fantasy
For the Mid-Autumn Festival, cartoonist zwxrl illustrates a story he likes to tell his friends. In...
A Migrant Mother’s Poem: “My Child, I Am Sorry”
As the school year begins in China, the children of migrant workers face a harsh reality: without...
Can China’s Ambitious New Urbanization Plan Succeed?
China’s leadership has put much energy into renewed urbanization efforts that will have 60...
New Urbanization Plan Faces Hurdles
Since coming to power, China’s new leadership has been touting the benefits that increased...
Sizing Up China’s Cities
Amid a broad push for urbanization in China, Andrew Stokols explains how urban population figures...
One-Child Policy, Labor Camps Addressed in “Blueprint for Reform”
On Friday, Beijing released the 20-page, 60-point ‘CCP Central Committee Resolution...
Symptoms of the Hukou System and a Map to Reform
China Dialogue has republished a Caixin editorial from June outlining the benefits...
China’s Third Plenum: Get Ready for Disappointment?
The Party’s looming Third Plenum is expected to lay out a roadmap of the government’s...
Cracking the Hukou Code to Hasten Urbanization
Although discussions over modifying China’s household registration or hukou system have been...
Phrase of the Week: Temporary Residence
The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
Drawing the News: I’d Do It All Again
It’s tough out there for a government official in China. Cartoonist Dashixiong (@大尸凶的漫画) gives voice to the hardships one public servant endures in order to fulfill his duty. ...
Frustrated “Lower-class” Parent Calls Out Classism
After a child in Shanghai received detention at school for failing to turn in a notice for a health insurance program his or her family did not qualify for, one of the child’s parents turned to the Internet to vent...
Ministry of Truth: Wang Dexue’s Tears
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: With regards to State Administration of Work Safety Vice...
Ministry of Truth: House Sisters and More
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have...
China to “Speed Up” Hukou System Reform
The National Development and Reform Commission announced Tuesday that the government “will speed up” reform of China’s household registration or “hukou” system, following up on pledges by incoming...
Netizen Voices: Abolish Labor Re-education
The mother of a rape victim in Hunan Province has been sent to a re-education through labor camp...
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