The Formation and Reform Evolution of the Household Registration System Since the Founding of the New China
The household registration system,that is,a set of political,economic,social and legal systems relat-ed to registered residence and management,is the most important population management system in China.The household registration system not only has an important impact on China's macro-economic and social develop-ment patterns,such as the trend of labor mobility,the process of urbanization,the development gap between urban and rural areas,and the division of social strata,but also affects the education,medical care,social security,employ-ment,income,and even marriage of micro individuals.At the beginning of the founding of the new China,based on the needs of stabilizing domestic public order and developing heavy industry,the Chinese government established the household registration system,which was consolidated and developed during 1959-1978,resulting in urban-ru-ral dual division and anti-urbanization.After the reform and opening up,the market-oriented economic system re-form led to a large-scale population flow,which began to force the reform of the household registration system.With the rapid advancement of urbanization after 2000,the reform of the household registration system has gradually in-creased.With the breakthrough progress made in the reform of the household registration system in small towns,the central government has encouraged large and medium-sized cities to conduct exploration according to their own ac-tual conditions.After 2012,based on the considerations of fairness and justice,the Chinese government began to take the"citizenization of agricultural transfer population"as the priority task of the reform of the household registra-tion system,implemented the new urbanization strategy with people at the core,and constantly made greater efforts in the reform of the household registration system.