China’s politcal parties have attempted to control this floating population with the rise of the negative pressure the rural Hukou places on migrant workers attempting to situate themselves in urban cities for an economically stable setting or their child’s future. As migrants desperately vye for these Hukou’s, the government hands them only to those who meet impossible migrant standards; those who’ve obtained a professional degree, investors in a city's government budget, or those who are able to purchase high-end apartments[1].
Although the Chinese government has made minute concessions toward the Richie noveau in the metropolitan cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, smaller fishing and production cities have made “urban” Hukou much easier to acquire with a few years of domestic settlement in the city . Despite the seemingly straightforward way the government allows these citizens to obtain “urban” Hukous, the negative aspects of gaining a “urban” Hukou happen to be the loss of land in the migrants home city[2]. With these deficient choices, the migrants must choose to be either self-sufficient for themselves or for their future generation.
[1] Employment and Residence Regulations in Cities) (Beijing: Zhongguo fazhi chubanshe, 2003
[2] Kam Wing Chan, ‘‘Internal labor migration in China: trends, geographical distribution and policies,’’
Proceedings of United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Population Distribution, Urbanization, Internal
Migration and Development, ESA/P/WP206, United Nations (2008)
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