Freedom of Residence and Travel CECC Reports and Roundtables Useful Links  News and Analysis Survey of Hukou Reforms through the End of 2004 Jiangsu Court Uses Urban Standard To Set Compensation for Migrant Death (3/02/06) Changsha Court Reduces Compensation for Death Because of Rural Registration (2/21/06) UN Special Rapporteur Urges "Humane Approach" Toward North Korean Refugees (04/21/06) Party Scholars, Government Officials Discuss Reform Of Household Registration System (4/10/06) State Council Newspaper Criticizes Lack of Migrant Representation in Shanghai LPC (2/28/06) Xinhua: Household Registration System Blamed For Discriminatory Compensation (2/27/06) Shenyang City Government Revokes Reforms to Temporary Residence Permit System (1/31/06) Local Governments Resist Reforms to Household Registration System (1/04/06) Reforms to Household Registration System Under Consideration (12/01/05) Migrant Sues Government for Denying Welfare Claim on Basis of Residency Status (10/28/05) Labor Ministry Officials Remove Regulatory Barrier to Migrants Seeking Work in Cities (10/27/05) Henan Provincial Authorities Expand Medical Services to Migrants and Rural Residents (8/31/05) Scholars Comment on Public Demands for Tighter Restrictions on Rural Migrants (8/31/05) Shenzhen Municipal Authorities Announce Tighter Controls Over Migrant Population (8/31/05) Migrants Elected to Shenzhen People's Congress, Suggests Heightened Attention to Migrant Rights (5/26/05) Beijing Scraps Discriminatory Regulation on Migrant Workers (4/05/05) Youth Daily Calls for Reform of Hukou System (3/14/05) NPC Will Likely Not Consider Hukou Reform Law in 2005 (2/25/05) State Council Notice Calls for Better Treatment of Migrants (2/23/05) Beijing Plans Reforms to Regulations Governing Migrants; Some Propose Tightening Controls (2/11/05) Henan Province to Eliminate Corvee Labor Requirements for Farmers (1/25/05) Shanghai Rolls Out Temporary Residence Permits (9/30/04)  CECC Annual Reports 2005 Annual Report Complete Report Freedom of Residence and Travel 2004 Annual Report Complete Report Freedom of Residence and Travel  CECC Topic Papers  CECC Roundtables China's Household Registration (Hukou) System: Discrimination and Reform (September 2, 2005) Transcript Statements of Panelists Fei-Ling Wang Professor, The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Chloé Froissart PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science of Paris, affiliated to the Center for International Studies and Research, Paris; Research Fellow at the French Center for Research on Contemporary China, Hong Kong.  Useful Resources Fei-ling Wang, Organization through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System, Stanford University Press, 2005. Kam Wing Chan, 2004. “Chinese Hukou Reforms and Rural-Urban Migration,” (in Chinese) Zhongguo laodong jingji ( China Labor Economics), 2004 (1), pp.108-123. Kam Wing Chan and Li Zhang, 1999. "The Hukou System and Rural-Urban Migration: Processes and Changes," The China Quarterly, Volume 160, Issue 1, pp. 818-855.