Hukou: The System That Shapes Internal Migration in China
In Discussion with Dr. Charlotte Goodburn, Deputy Director of the Lau China Institute and Reader in Chinese Politics at King’s College London Established in 1958, China’s household registration system, the hukou, initially assigned a rural (agricultural) or urban (non-agricultural) status to every citizen (Fu & Ren, 2010). Although the agricultural vs. non-agricultural distinction was abolished […]
