How Beijing's new residency system reinforces rural-urban inequality
How Beijing's new residency system reinforces rural-urban inequality
- September 2, 2016
- What if evolution bred reality out of us?
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Though China achieved substantial industrialization by the end of the 1970s, its cities
remained small due to the hukou system. Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the
University of California, Irvine, says that at the time 80 percent of China’s population
still lived in rural areas.
For the full story, please visit http://www.citylab.com/politics/2016/09/why-beijings-new-residency-system-reinforces-rural-urban-inequality/498458/.
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