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In this chapter, we try to reveal the behavioural pattern and hidden incentives of the central government, to help people know why the central government has made such industrial policies as well as social policies, for example, fiscal centralisation policy, discrimination policy against rural immigrants and urbanisation policy in favour of provincial urban development on a small scale.
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In reality, some rural immigrants have given up their urban hukou and kept the rural one.
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Zhang, Yaoyu, Dizu Shouyi Fenpei Tiaojie Yu Ren Di Tongchoude Chengshi Zengzhang Tiaokong Zhengce Guojian Yanjiu (Rent Re-distribution and Policy to Balance the Man-land Ratio in Urban Expansion), PhD Dissertation, Nanjing Agricultural University, 2016.
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Claus 25 of ‘Compensation for Physical Damages’, issued by the Supreme Court.
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See Bureau of Migrant Population, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Zhongguo Liudong Renkou Fazhan Baogao 2017 (Report on China’s Migrant Population Development, 2017). Beijing : China Population Press, 2017.
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Since 2010, Beijing resident s get a car purchasing permit through a lotto. Non-Beijing residents must meet other conditions including the valid green card for Beijing and five-year continuous tax payment record. Meanwhile, children are qualified to school enrolments only if their par ents have job s and housing which can be a tall order for casual workers.
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Yin, Xin, ‘Beijing Shanghai Buxiang Bian Da’ (Beijing and Shanghai Stopping Going Bigger), Cankao Xiaoxi (Reference News), vide: http://www.cankaoxiaoxi.com/china/20160430/1145398.shtml, available on 30 April 2016.
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Fan, Gang, ‘Dangwu Zhiji Shi Fazhan Da Chengshi’ (Growth in Large Cities as Priority), Jianzhu Sheji Guanli (Architectural Design Management), 2017, 34 (12): 1-3.
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Feng, Junqi, Zhongxian Ganbu (County Cadres), PhD Dissertation, Peking University, 2010.
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Hua, Sheng, Chengshihua Zhuanxing Yu Tudi Xianjing (Transition towards Urbanisation and Trap of Land Dealing), Beijing : Oriental Press, 2013.
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Zheng, Y., Deng, K. (2018). The Central Government and Its Goals. In: State Failure and Distorted Urbanisation in Post-Mao's China, 1993–2012. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92168-6_6
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