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Easing urban residency limits and encouraging more births are among the ways to increase the local population.
An estimated 13 million undocumented Chinese—mostly young people born illegally in contravention of the one-child policy—are eligible for official registration that would give them access to basic social services, a Communist Party reform commission stated on Dec. 9.
Chinese women and their families are likely to continue to suffer the pain and anguish of forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations, and crippling financial penalties under China’s new two-child policy, just as they have been under the 35-year-old one-child policy.
Long-standing discriminatory policy denies many migrant workers the opportunity to settle down in the cities with their families.
Millions of Chinese citizens will be given a kind of grudging reprieve from the disabling lack of legal status they have suffered under the “hukou” or household registration system.
Policies preventing the children of workers in Beijing from attending schools there are making people angry.
