Where you live matters
Something strange is going on in China. Government-run newspapers jointly advocating a change in government policy? Who's in charge there? Oh, the editorials have disappeared? Well, maybe whoever is in charge has spoken. Things like this tend to happen as the National Peoples Congress meets.Rare Outspoken Reform Call From China State Media
More than a dozen Chinese newspapers took a rare stand this week against a Mao Zedong-era system blamed for the wide gap between the country's rich and poor…
Monday's editorial published in 13 newspapers across the country gave a glimpse of the tensions that exist behind the scenes ahead of China's largest political event, the National People's Congress, which begins Friday…
Household registration, or hukou, essentially identifies each Chinese citizen as urban or rural. It dates back to the time when the Chinese revolutionary Mao wanted to control migration to cities.
The system's limits became increasingly clear in recent years as millions of migrant workers left their rural homes to find work in China's booming cities. Their residence status, however, remains with their hometowns, and not having the proper classification restricts access to government services like education. Changing a hukou can be difficult…
Speaking with a coordinated voice isn't unusual for China's state-run media, but it is when that voice challenges the central government itself.
By Tuesday, several of the editorials, plus links to them, had disappeared from Web sites, likely falling victim to belated self-censorship…
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Labels: China, economics, media, politics
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