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Latest Books! 《大国城民：城镇化及户籍改革》陈金永著，北京大学出版社， 2023. 城读 | 流动人口子女是中国未来的半边天
(in
English.) Urban China Reframed: A Critical
Appreciation, edited by Wing-Shing Tang and Kam Wing Chan 2021, Routledge 174 pages edited by Kam Wing Chan and Yuen Ren 2020 Routledge 186 pages Urbanization with Chinese
Characteristics: The Hukou System and Migration Kam
Wing Chan 2018 Routledge 222 pages (Preview,
Chapter One) My recent commentaries:
留下来还是回老家？流动人口定居状况的十年变迁 严肃的人口学八卦 2024-7-24 中国近十几年来出台了不少关于户籍制度改革的政策。在中央层面，“国家新型城镇化规划（2014-2020）”的发布，标志着中国城镇化发展的重大转型。这一“新型”的城镇化方案旨在扭转过去侧重于城市建设而忽视“人”作为主体的普遍做法，推动农业转移人口市民化和基本公共服务均等化。阅读全文
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Have
China’s internal migrants been more settled since 2010? A contribution based
on migrants’ age profiles, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2024. 在哪里工作就能在哪里落户，不应该是遥不可及的梦
弎公理 2024-02-08 中国要建立和完善社会主义市场经济体制，同时保护社会公平，人口的自由迁移和按每个人的志愿安居落户是一个重要方面。作为劳动大军的重要组成部分，外来工不能永远漂流不定。阅读全文 中国城市青春常驻的秘密 严肃的人口学八卦 2023-12-15 众所周知，中国人口在急剧老化。2020年，全国60岁以上人口占比已达18.7%。然而在一些大城市，如广州，60岁以上人口只占11.4%。深圳更低，只有5.3%。同年，全国15~59岁的劳动年龄人口占比为63.4%。而在深圳和广州，这一数字分别为79.6%和74.7%，比全国平均水平高出11~16个百分点。在人口全面老龄化的背景下，这些大城市缘何能够保持“青春常驻”，是一个值得研究的问题。阅读全文 (财新网) Related link:
Forever
Young: China’s Migration Regime and Age Patterns, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2023. 中国常住人口城镇化率与户籍人口城镇化率之差的变化趋势
2023-11-11 2023年8月3日，公安部发布公安机关服务保障高质量发展26条措施，明确将推动各地全面取消城区常住人口300万以下的城市落户限制，全面放宽城区常住人口300万至500万的大城市落户条件...
阅读全文 新学期开学了，1.3亿流动人口子女都上好学了吗？弎公理 2023-09-04 20世纪90年代，中国进入市场经济快速发展时期，流动人口数量急速增加，流动人口的子女（儿童）人口也急剧上升。2010年，流动人口子女的规模已占所有儿童人口的三分之一。2020年，这个比重已接近一半，绝对数是1.4亿。随着农民工年龄的提高，流动人口的子女人口与农民工人口的比例也大幅度上升，流动儿童的教育问题也变成一个大的社会问题。阅读全文 流动的中国与控制的户籍，中国户籍制度七十多年演变记 弎公理 2023-08-06 8月3日,公安部召开新闻发布会，发布公安机关服务保障高质量发展26条措施。其中包括大力推进以人为核心的新型城镇化，健全以常住地登记户口制度，进一步放宽落户条件、降低落户门槛，促进有能力在城镇稳定就业和生活的农业转移人口举家进城落户。阅读全文 从流动到落户，还有多长的路要走？弎公理 2023-06-06 中国的城镇化与世界经济的急速全球化和中国作为“世界工厂”的角色息息相关。与此同时，中国过去七十多年的经济发展是以国家推动高速工业化为主线，也形成了人类历史上最大的（而且非常特别的）人口“迁移”。所以，在中国工业化的进程当中，人口迁移和城镇化是两个复杂又高度相关的过程，反映了中国的“特色”。阅读全文 A China Geographer’s View of the
World’s Largest Cities, 2022.
Back in high school times in Hong Kong still under British colonial
rule, I read with great interest in the South
China Morning Post that Shanghai was the largest or second largest city
in the world. As a (Hong Kong) Chinese, I was quite pleased to learn of our
country’s accomplishment…. ... Read
more
China’s hukou reform remains a major challenge to domestic migrants in
cities, World Bank Blogs,
December 17, 2021. In observance
of International Migrants Day, Dec 18. China’s rise as a global player in
manufacturing is closely linked to its epic-scale internal migrant labor
supply and its associated “semi-urbanization” strategy of the past four
decades. The huge number of low-cost urban laborers who constitute the
bulk of China’s “floating population” (liudong
renkou) have helped keep the price of Chinese
manufactures low and make them fiercely competitive in the world market.
However,… Read
more... What the 2020 Chinese Census Tells Us
about Progress in Hukou Reform, China Brief, July 2021. The People’s Republic of China
recently published its seventh national ten-year 2020 Census results, which led
to much discussion and commentary about the development implications of low
population growth and a rapidly aging population. Fewer have noted insights
that the 2020 Census has provided into the progress of China’s long-awaited
reforms to its household registration system … Read
more China’s Precious Children, Eurasian Pulse
2019. China’s population has been in the international spotlight for decades
not only because it is the world’s largest, but also because the “one-child”
family planning policy, introduced in 1980, was the world’s
biggest, and probably also one of the harshest, social engineering projects ... Read more 感謝母親 感謝香江，星島日報(美西版)， 2018年5月14日 在一九六四年，母親帶著我們一家五口(包括年邁的祖母)，拿著單程證，從汕頭移居香港 … 閲讀全文 (English translation: Thanks
to Mom, Thanks to Hong Kong) 持“单程票”的迁徙者：罗伦斯《迁移系列》的启示 财新网, 2017年04月13日 这60幅画讲述了黑人在1910-1930年从南向北、从乡村到城市大迁移的故事，对于我们思考与分析中国的城乡二元制、寻找解决的道路应有启发。… 閲讀全文 中国户籍改革能从美国学什么 《东方早报》2015年12月29日 人们往往用美国的国际移民管理与中国户籍制度基础上的国内移民管理作比较，这两种制度确实有很多类似的地方。美国的移民和发展经验及管理制度规定，可以为推动中国户籍改革提供一些有用的参考。… 閲讀全文 China’s Missing Children, South China Morning Post, December
16, 2015. A new generation of
children is growing up in China’s countryside with one or no parents around
most of the year. The 2010 census counted 61 million children in that
category. Nearly half had no parents at home...
Read more 渐进的、破冰的全面户籍改革 《保尔森基金会政策备忘录》, 2014年12月 戶籍改革是关乎中国发展的重大课题。中国的耕地有限，比美国的还要少，但仍然有二亿多人口依靠农业为生，八亿多仍然拿着“农村户口”的人口。中国要进一步发展，走城镇化的道路，同时让农民工“市民化”，是无可避免的选择。、...閲讀全文 Related Links: 中国流动人口约2.3亿 美媒称户籍改革应更大胆,《参考消息》, 2014-12-19 Achieving
Comprehensive Hukou Reform in China, Paulson Policy Memo, December 2014 China’s Closed Cities Threaten
Population Goals, Report Says, WSJ.com, December 17, 2014 People Not Buildings — China’s New
Approach to Urbanization, Bloomberg
Brief, October 2014
China’s creaking household registration system, known as the hukou,
was a product of Mao’s industrialization strategy. The system has been a
barrier to full participation in the social and economic life of the city for
hundreds of millions of migrants. …. Read
more Migration and Urbanization in China, Seattle Times, May
21, 2014 In the last three decades, China has undergone
rapid and massive urbanization. Today, more than 700 million people live in
cities and towns, more than triple the nearly 200 million in 1980.. …. Read more 城鎮化新藍圖的突破與不足 《明報》, 2014年4月2日 各方期待多時的《國家新型城鎮化規劃》（下稱《規劃》）3月中終於公布，這也是中國首部國家級城鎮化規劃。自1949年起，中國始建城鄉二元體制，推行「中國式」城鎮化，
以法律、政治手段將社會、人口、勞動力等割裂成不平等的兩塊，並將戶籍制度與城鎮化緊緊綑綁。、...閲讀全文 Related Link: China’s Urbanization
2020: A New Blueprint and Direction, Eurasian Geography and
Economics, 2014, No.1 The
Great Change South China Morning Post,
March 27, 2014 China's bold new urbanisation plan raises many questions, not least how
the increased social costs will be funded and whether the focus on small
cities can achieve the desired result…. Read more
滬學生評估奪冠的光環背後 《明報》, 2014-1-3 OECD的PISA 2012年學生評估測驗，上海再奪冠，在國際（包括本港）引起不少爭議。有人認為這是中國實力上升的表現，同時也憂心戚戚，尤其有些美國人，深怕沒法與中國人競爭。反而有些人認為不必過度歡欣（或惶恐），測驗分數不代表分析能力、創造力；這樣說的人，、...閲讀全文 Related Links: Shanghai Test
Scores and the Mystery of the Missing Children, The New York Times,
January 23,
2014 查封非法办学，外地孩子咋办,今日话题 2014-10-25
Hukou de génie，
Laviemoderne, December
29, 2015 China is not Eating Our Lunch, The Seattle Times, January 3, 2011 外来”与未来：美国移改对中国户改的启示 《中国改革》,
2013年第8期,
2013-8-1 改革移民制度、户籍制度，中美各自都说了十多年。这个题目终于成为今年的热门课题。经过多月来艰苦的讨论和谈判，美国参议院在6月底以大比数压倒性通过了30多年来最重要的移民改革法案，主要内容是让1100万无证移民可以成为合法居民。.... 阅读全文 户籍改革路线图 财新《新世纪》, 2013年 第18期, 2013-05-13 从2015年开始， 所有大中小城镇，首先向外地大学毕业生开放，然后向有熟练技术又有稳定就业的农民工开放，再逐步有序地向其他农民工开放.... 阅读全文 Related Links: 十五年完成户籍改革 《中国改革》2013年 第6期, 2013-6-1 A Road Map
for Reforming China’s Hukou System, China Dialogue, October 22, 2013. Cities of Dreams South China Morning Post,
January 19, 2013 Dreams are
in vogue in mainland China. During a widely publicised
tour of Shenzhen, the new head of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping, called for
the realisation of the “Chinese dream”…. Read more Related
Link: 圆“城市梦”须改革户籍制度,《参考消息》, 2013-1-21 Not Quite There Yet July 1, 2012 (with
Dorothy Solinger) Chasing China’s middle class
shoppers has been American business’ “China dream” for decades. In a recent Wall Street Journal article titled
“Chasing China’s Shoppers” (June 15, 2012, B1), the authors attributed the
lack of success of some American businesses in China to their misjudgment of
its middle-class shoppers' preferences. … .. Read more Path to Riches is Paved through Cities China Daily, May 25, 2012.
Last year marked a milestone in China’s
several-thousand-year history: for the first time, more people lived in cities
and towns than in the countryside. The country’s 690 million urban dwellers
now account for 51.3 percent of China’s total population of 1.35 billion. …
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the full article. Related links: Can China’s Urbanisation Save the World? Conversation, June 1, 2012. Apple’s
Secret The Ave, January 23,
2012 Apple, despite its innovative greatness,
has a reputation for secrecy. “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work” (The
New York Times, January 22) puts some of its secrets, perhaps dirty ones,
out in the open. ….. Read the full text F(r)ee Country The Ave,January
15, 2012 As a
lifelong foreign student of English I’ve been intrigued, if at times
confused, by the magical power of certain words to conceal as well as to
reveal. For example, after twenty years in this free country, I have finally
come to learn about the real meanings …
Read the full text The Limp in China’s Great Leap The Seattle Times,
December 6, 2011. With the U.S. economy in the doldrums and
Europe's ongoing debt crisis continuing its downward spiral, analysts are
left to wonder if China might be the savior of the global economy or, rather,
whether the country is simply a multitrillion bubble about to burst… Read the full text 美國夢、中國夢，仍然遙遠 《星島日報》（美西版）2011-11-30 剛下筆開始寫這篇文章時，在紐約的兒子就傳來電郵，說警察已在清晨時份強制清走在曼哈頓祖科蒂公園的帳篷。有人說，一個人沒有夢，生命也就死了。一個沒有夢的社會，是一個死的社會。... 阅读全文 In the City, but Not of the City: the
Myth of China’s Urbanization China-US Focus, July 16, 2011.
In the popular media and the business world, urbanization is often the
most cited fundamental driver of global economic growth, especially for the
next few decades. The assumption is that such a rural-urban shift
will transform poor farmers into industrial and office workers, raise their
incomes and create a mass consumer class....
Read
the full text Related links: Bright Lights,
Big Questions About China's Urban
Legend, Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2011.
（中文译文: 中国式城市化的发展症结） Urban Myth, South China Morning
Post, August 24, 2011. Plight of the
Rat Pack, The Straits Times, September 10,
2011 Mothers Who Understand the Importance of Education, The
Ave, May 7, 2011.
Many mothers understand the importance of education. Some pushy
ones, like the “tiger mom” who has ignited a firestorm of debate about
parenting, have given mom a bad name. Many others, gentler and far less
known, in my opinion, are equally powerful and decidedly smarter,…… Read
the full text China’s High-Speed Trains: Too Fast, Too Furious, China-US Focus, March 28, 2011. This year China endured its
grueling 40-day annual chunyun – the epic “spring
movement” of an estimated 120 million people traveling long distances home
and back during the Lunar New Year interlude. This took place right after
China entered its glittering bullet-train age last year… Read
the full text
China
is Not ‘Eating Our Lunch’, The
Seattle Times, January 3, 2011. The lackluster performance of our
15-year-olds in math, science and reading in a standardized test compared
with Shanghai's students scoring first in all three subjects, have stirred
some interesting and somewhat self-deprecating comments. President Obama
declared it a "Sputnik moment," …
中国要走正常城镇化道路 财新网 (2010-12-8) 城镇化将成为中国经济下一轮的新增长点，但如何结合发展战略，具体走什么样的城镇化的路，是目前急需要探讨的问题.. 阅读全文
户籍改革如何在渐进中突破 南方报网 (2010-03-10 ) 在金融危机后的中国，
户口改革又成为热烘烘讨论的话题。温总理最近讲了几次关于开放中小城市的户籍，要解决好民工的新生代的就业和生活问题，要利用城市化推动内需。户籍改革已经谈了十几年… 阅读全文 Making Real Hukou Reform, East Asia Forum, March 3, 2010 Yes it’s true – hukou (household
registration) reform is again back in vogue in China’s ‘post-crisis’ conversations.
Premier Wen Jiabao has been talking.... Read the
full text The Problem with China’s Population
Data, ft.com Dragonbeat, July 14,
2009. How big are Chinese cities? That depends on
how you measure them. Back in 2005, Time magazine proclaimed that
Chongqing had become “the largest city not only in China but in the world”,
with a population in excess of 30m....
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