Cracking the Hukou Code to Hasten Urbanization

(Beijing) -- Nearly 260 million so-called "migrant workers" in China are anything but migratory. They left hometowns, villages and farms long ago to plant new – now deep – roots in burgeoning cities.

They work in offices and factories, or run their own shops and businesses. They're raising families, buying cars and renting flats.

But they're still, at least in the government's eyes, migrant workers.