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2/11/2013

Topic Reading-Vol.306-2/11/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
China's great migration from 'Hukou Hell'.
As posted earlier in Vol.298, over three billion trips are taken place in China during their new year holiday season, the largest human migration on the planet in history, to reunite families and friends with the workers who live and work away from their hometowns to make their living.
Why such a huge number of people choose to live in cities where they have no access to welfare, insurance, social security or education for their children even despite the discriminatory legislation called Hukou system, which a Western journalist describes as illegal immigration within their own country?
Enjoy reading and learning more about this social system behind their economic growth of the world most populous and rapidly-advancing country.


If you’re interested to learn more about the Hukou system, please click the below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system

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