Caixin
Dec 11, 2015 06:21 PM

Beijing to Shake-up Rigid Household Registration Rules

(Beijing) - Beijing plans to introduce a points system to allow the city's 8.2 million migrants to get permanent residency status, which would give them access to long denied public services, city officials said.

Nearly two out of five residents in the Chinese capital do not a local household registration, data from the Beijing Statistics Bureau show, and are denied access to schools and public healthcare facilities.

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