China's great migration from 'Hukou Hell'.
As posted earlier in Vol.298, over three billion trips are
taken place in China during their new year holiday season, the largest human
migration on the planet in history, to reunite families and friends with the
workers who live and work away from their hometowns to make their living.
Why such a huge number of people choose to live in cities
where they have no access to welfare, insurance, social security or education for
their children even despite the discriminatory legislation called Hukou system,
which a Western journalist describes as illegal immigration within their own
country?
Enjoy reading and learning more about this social system
behind their economic growth of the world most populous and rapidly-advancing
country.
If you’re interested to learn more about the Hukou system,
please click the below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system
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