This news piece concerns the hukou reform announced on Wednesday (guowuyuan guanyu jinyibu tuijin huji zhidu gaige de yijian – 国务院关于进一步推进户籍制度改革的意见), which plans to eliminate the anachronistic distinction between agricultural and non-agricultural registration. From now on, citizens will be classified simply as residents. The report explains that the reform won’t affect a liberalisation of rural land rights that would allow urban residents moving towards rural areas and acquire rural land-use rights, which is illegal up to now. The report explains that the reform won’t affect the “bidirectional flow of people” (shuangxiang liudong – 双向流动), in contrast to the existing legal framework that only permits the “one-way circulation of rural residents towards the city”.
Please click here to watch the report on chinanews.com: http://www.chinanews.com/shipin/2014/06-21/news447205.shtml
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Miguel Elosua (August 1, 2014). Reform of the hukou: Not a liberalisation of the rural land market. URBACHINA. Retrieved September 15, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/v2um
That’s a good point to note. And it helps refute one misleading point that is common in the media, such as this one:
Ending Urban-Rural Dichotomy
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/print/txt/2014-08/11/content_633996.htm