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Tag Archives: hukou
Urban redevelopment: a city’s life and death
This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest is taking us through various aspects of China’s urbanization process. Zhang … Continue reading
Posted in 1510 Digest, Business and the Economy, Traditions, Urban Culture and Cities, Wildlife, Nature and the Environment
Tagged Danwei.com, development, heritage, hukou, Nanjing, tourism, Urbanization
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73,400 students register for the gaokao; 650,000 sweep tombs
The front page top headline of the Beijing Morning Post, April 3: “In Beijing, 73,400 people registered for the gaokao (the national college entrance exam).” This represents a decline in registrants, down from 76,000 last year. The article predicted, however, that university admissions … Continue reading
Posted in Front Page of the Day, Internet and Media, School and Education, Traditions
Tagged Danwei.com, gaokao, hukou, Qingming, traffic jams
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Get a Hong Kong ID for your Beijing baby
A company that offers a service to help expecting parents from the Mainland have their babies in Kong.
Posted in Advertising and Marketing
Tagged Beijing, business, child birth, Hong Kong, hukou
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No hukou, no way
50 high school seniors found themselves could not register for this year’s National Collage Entrance Exam for their dubious Hukou status.
Yunnan will NOT abolish ‘hukou’ system
An earlier post on Danwei suggested that Yunnan Province was about to abolish the ‘hukou’ system, which is a relic old Chinese economy based on work units and local registrations that made casual migration almost impossible. While the Chinese economy … Continue reading
Posted in Migrant workers
Tagged hukou, law, migrant workers, transport
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Yunnan to dismantle ‘hukou’ system
GoKunming reports: The Yunnan government has announced that beginning on January 1 of next year, Yunnan province will eliminate the current hukou registration system that essentially binds rural Yunnanese to their officially registered place of residence – often their place … Continue reading
Posted in Migrant workers
Tagged hukou, peasants, urban rural divide, welath gap, Yunnan
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Mr. Sun, I’ll need to see some ID
China’s national laws on resident documentation do not compel citizens to show ID except in certain limited cases.
Posted in Internet, IP and Law, Media regulation
Tagged GAPP, hukou, Monkey King, Wang Qi
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