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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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