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The term hukou (pronounced who-koh) refers to China’s household-registration system, which defines access to welfare. Required by law since 1958, the system records every Chinese citizen as a permanent resident of a particular city or county. Before 1980, citizens were strictly required to stay in the neighborhood of birth and could not seek employment or education elsewhere in the country.
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Randau, H.R., Medinskaya, O. (2015). Chinese Migrants: The Hukou System. In: China Business 2.0. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07677-5_29
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