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In the 1950s the Chinese government evolved what was perhaps the strictest set of controls over population movement ever exercised within a modern state. A legal transfer of residence within China, especially if it involved a move from a rural to an urban area, could involve greater bureaucratic difficulty than migration across national boundaries elsewhere in the world. In the 1960s and 1970s, migration in China occurred mainly as a result of policy decisions and government direction rather than individual responses to the workings of the market.
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Messkoub, M., Davin, D. (2000). Patterns of Migration under the Reforms. In: Cannon, T. (eds) China’s Economic Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977392_3
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