Shanghai has launched a new points-based residency permit system, in an effort to speed up the reformation of hukou (household registration) system, which is being pushed by the central government.

A murky trade thrives as quotas tightened, reports He Na in Beijing. Beijing's efforts to strictly curb population growth have boosted the black market trade in hukou, permanent residency permits.

Hukou is a legal document that records the household population’s basic information, including the name of the natural person, date of birth, relatives, and marital status. Introduced 60 years ago, a ...

The reform of the housing registration, or hukou system, has been under way in most regions in China following the State Council's call to establish a unified household registration system for urban ...

The central authorities recently said China will implement the system of providing basic public services based on the number of people with permanent residence permits, promote migrant workers to ...

A man looks at signs showing the personal profiles of people looking for spouses during a matchmaking event for middle-aged singles and seniors, sponsored by Shanghai's government, in Shanghai. | ...

Shanghai has become the first mainland city to enforce a ban on its registered citizens from holding permanent residency in other countries – for example the US green card. The new rule was announced ...

At the match-making corner in Shanghai, education and hukou status are often explicitly stated on adverts. cementley/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND For many, marriage is about love, shared interests and shared ...

The promise of a better education and higher paid job attracts tens of thousands of young Chinese to the capital, Beijing, each year. But, increasingly strict policies on residency permits are pushing ...

The way Lai Jie sees it, there are two kinds of relationships. There is romance. And there is marriage. They are not always the same, and in a city such as Shanghai, the deciding factor on who to wed ...

People in China have for decades faced serious hurdles when trying to relocate around the country, whether to find a new job or a better school. One is known as hukou (pronounced who-co) -- a ...