Chinese economists are urging the government to reform hukou — an archaic residency registration system set up decades ago under Mao to stop the mass migration of rural Chinese into cities. Several ...

The State Council of China has unveiled a five-year plan to reform the deeply entrenched hukou system, marking a significant shift in how the nation addresses economic and social disparities between ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - 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 ...