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1. Comment - Blogs - CORRUPTION

   Multiple identities: a recurring theme in Chinese corruption

   Posted Feb 04th 2013, 07:50pm by Ernest Kao

   ... Comment Blogs News China Corruption Hukou Chinese Officials Ernest Kao ernest.kao@scmp.com With an impending graft crackdown hot on their heels, increasing numbers of Chinese officials are being caught in possession of “ multiple identities ”. The recent trend of acquiring multiple hukou – or household registration permits – is allowing corrupt individuals to sidestep government ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1143243/multiple-identities-recurring-theme-chinese-corruption
2. News - China

   Testing time for China’s migrants as they demand access to education

   Posted Dec 17th 2012, 01:07pm by AFP

   ... with official residency permits, or “hukou”, to take their exam and benefit from preferential quotas for places. Around a third of the capital’s 20 million population are migrants, but many ... of Shandong (my hometown) that has almost a million students taking the exam each year. So a migrant worker enjoys the same education right as those city hukou holders as long as he/she remains within his/her own province, but an urbaner from Shandong province will certainly be at disadvantage than those rural hukou holders in cities like Beijing and Shanghai. That is to say, unless ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1107046/testing-time-chinas-migrants-they-demand-access-education
3. Comment - Insight & Opinion - WHAT THE MAINLAND MEDIA SAY

   China's household registration system a 'tool for corrupt officials'

   Posted Jan 27th 2013, 12:00am by ZHUANG PINGHUI

   ... two identity cards and two hukou (registered household addresses) to buy 20 properties in the capital. Gong, once reputed to be the coal mining county's richest woman, said she thought ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1136841/chinas-household-registration-system-tool-corrupt-officials
4. Rural hukou now a prize for graduates

   Posted Jul 25th 2010, 12:00am by Lulu Chen

   ... Beijing Beijing Hukou System Lulu Chen For many university graduates on the mainland, such as Zhou Jiaozhi, getting a rural hukou - or residency status - is now something to aspire to rather than flee from. It's a reversal almost unimaginable a few years ago, when acceptance into a university and the granting of a hukou in a large city was a major step toward success. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/720580/rural-hukou-now-prize-graduates
5. Comment - Blogs

   Beijing now offers permanent residency at a group discount of HK$125m

   Posted Feb 28th 2013, 10:41am by John Kennedy

   ... received through 623 domestic investment projects. Prior to 2012, a Beijing hukou could only be legally obtained through the city's labour and social security bureau. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1162101/beijing-now-offers-permanent-residency-group-discount-hk125m
6. News - China - HENAN

   Henan bridge collapse victims to get disparate compensation

   Posted Feb 04th 2013, 11:10am by Ernest Kao

   ... the report said those with urban hukou  would receive 400,000 yuan (HK$490,000) in compensation, and those with rural hukou would get 180,000 yuan. Hukou , or household registration permit, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1143016/henan-bridge-collapse-victims-get-disparate-compensation
7. News - China - VISAS

   Academic outraged at request for hukou in UK visa application

   Posted Jan 20th 2013, 12:00am by Minnie Chan

   ... visa application centre demanded the document in addition to his passport and national identity card. The household registration, or hukou , system has long been criticised by Yu and other ... the British should not be endorsing the Chinese hukou system. new --> serpiente Jan 20th 2013 11:34am It would be very important to clarify if the outrageous request for the hukou was asked ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1131884/academic-outraged-request-hukou-uk-visa-application
8. News - China - SHAANXI

   Ex-bank official buys properties worth 1b yuan using fake ID

   Posted Jan 21st 2013, 04:23pm by Ernest Kao

   ... governor, registered two sets of hukou (household registration permit) to purchase 20 properties in Beijing worth about one billion yuan (HK$1.24 billion). The Shanxi office of the China Banking ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1133008/ex-bank-official-uses-fake-id-purchase-us160-million-worth-property
9. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   China's hukou system stands in the way of its dream of prosperity

   Posted Jan 19th 2013, 12:00am by KAM WING CHAN

   ... They do not have an urban hukou , or household registration, a little red booklet that entitles the bearer to truly live like an urbanite. About 230 million migrants now work in the city ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1131085/chinas-hukou-system-stands-way-its-dream-prosperity
10. Changing countryside sees growing number seek return of rural hukou

    Posted Oct 05th 2010, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

    ... Hukou System Yangtze River Delta Mandy Zuo in Zhejiang Two decades ago, many parents in the countryside of Zhejiang province were willing to spend 10,000 yuan each to buy their child an urban hukou, or permanent residential registration. As urban residents, they would be better educated and, afterwards, have access to better jobs. Although Zhejiang was one of the richest ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/726559/changing-countryside-sees-growing-number-seek-return-rural-hukou

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