Changes are more muted for cities with a permanent resident population above 5 million such as Beijing. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - China will relax restrictions for its citizens hoping to permanently settle in small and medium-sized cities, state media reported on Thursday, but changes in the biggest cities such as the capital Beijing will be more limited.
The move signals that elements of China’s 14th five-year plan announced in 2021 are being implemented and marks a further relaxation of the hukou household registration system which for decades has split people along urban-rural lines and thus determining their access to welfare, education and services.
This has caused much resentment, for example because children, who are unable to attend schools in certain cities, have had to return to their distant home towns and be separated from their parents. For the “super-large” cities which have a permanent resident population above five million, such as Beijing and Shanghai, the changes are more muted.
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