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Reformed Migration Control and New Targeted People: China's Hukou System in the 2000s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2004

Fei-Ling Wang
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Abstract

This article outlines the latest reforms of China's hukou system in 1997–2002 and reports the system's functional changes and continuities. Today's hukou system still performs two leading functions: the widely discussed internal migration control with reformed mechanisms and the previously scarcely examined socio-political management of the targeted people (zhongdian renkou). An adapted and adjusted hukou system is expected to continue as a key component of China's institutional framework, playing a crucial role to determine socio-political stability, facilitate a rapid but uneven economic growth, and shape socio-economic stratification and spatial inequality in the PRC.

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Research Report
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The China Quarterly , Volume 177 , March 2004 , pp. 115 - 132
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© The China Quarterly, 2004

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Footnotes

I would like to thank the late Robert W. Barnett for encouragement and many others for assistance.