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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery

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To: RealMuLan who wrote (1676)	12/4/2003 12:44:52 PM
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China reforms household registration system to bridge urban-rural gap ( 2003-12-04 14:33) (Xinhua) Zhang Zihua said she "feels settled at last" since she got her name written in the family's residence registration booklet in Wuhu city of east China's Anhui province. She had waited for the moment for seven straight years. In 1997, Zhang, then a rural girl in Wuwei county in province, married a Wuhu urbanite and moved in. But because of restrictions from the household registration system, she couldn't get her rural residence status changed nor could she enjoy the social welfare benefits entitled to her other family members, like medical or job positions. In the meantime, their school-age son Jiang Cheng had to follow her status as a rural resident, which meant he couldn't enroll in primary schools without paying a handsome amount of money. "It's not fair for us. We lived in the city, worked for the city and paid due taxes," said Zhang. But things are all changing. From September this year, the city government abolished the rural registration system, granting unified "residence registration" to those with a legal regular residence in the city. ... www1.chinadaily.com.cn

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