@samuelszuchan: 200 million Chinese citizens work in cities where they can't access local hospitals, can't enroll their kids in public schools, and aren't legally counted as residents. They produce roughly half the urban GDP for places that don't formally include them. The system is called hukou, a household registration that determines where your children go to school, where your health insurance works, and where your pension accrues. In Beijing, getting a hukou requires seven consecutive years of social insurance contributions and a competitive points score. A degree from a top 50 global university clears the bar in Shanghai automatically. But if you're a construction worker or a food delivery rider, the door stays shut. The result: 60 to 70 million children at peak were left behind in rural villages while their parents worked in cities. A child raised entirely in Beijing but registered in another province has to go back to that province to take the college entrance exam, at that province's cutoff scores. Where the family is registered determines the floor of options for the rest of the child's life. A 2024 study mapped hukou regulations across 332 Chinese cities from 1999 to 2024. The average threshold fell from 98.8 percent, essentially closed, to 12.6 percent. But Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou kept their barriers high, admitting educated, high-earning taxpayers while keeping the workers who physically built those cities outside. The 200 million produce GDP for places that don't have to fund their retirements, educate their children, or treat their illnesses because they can’t actually live there officially. The floating population isn't a bug. It's a feature.

J-SpaceTech Venture Capitalist :

Where is the source for this? This isn't correct.

borisbalaklava :

Is the information reliable? — In which document is this stipulated?

Quest.ion. :

And the cut off score isn't automatically worse in "rural China" compare to Beijing. Qinghai province has a much lower cut off compare to not just Beijing but most of China.

Choson Explore :

It was true, but the Chinese government have now ruled that Migrants now can access social services in place of work instead of their Hukou

jamie.hani :

why? this seems not fair

丙子椒林 :

It is totally wrong. Medical insurance is valid across different provinces. However, you need to use your ID card to prove your identity when you use it for the first time in different provinces. Even if you don't have local medical insurance, you can still seek medical treatment as a local resident.

暮成雪 :

It is very complicated, but it is indeed a management method, it does bring some negative effects, but more positive effects. When your country has only tens of millions of people, it is difficult to imagine how to manage a population of more than a billion. In many cases, China has no reference cases and can only study how to manage the country slowly.

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Roscosmo 🔻 :

China is also investing into the regions where these people come from though right? There are plenty of people living in New York who don't get to study there. I lived in Sydney and had to move for uni. this seems like either poor or sensational framing

still :

hukou system is valid in this day and age. we have enough examples of horribly designed and overly populated metropolitan areas all across the world. disincentivising citizens from "just travelling to the best place in the country" and instead pushing them towards working in and bettering their own provinces makes keeps the country evenly populated and decreases the problems of mega metropolitan cities. its a system im envious about. although the education part of it i am not knowledgable well enough and can only hope its not a system where it keeps the rich more educated and the poor less so.

Wei1812 :

I approve this video. I’m Chinese and he is right about China

Cristina :

In fact Beijing and Shanghai are extremely overcrowded , even locals wait 7+ years in line just for a car plate. Hukou has real problems, but no megacity on earth can absorb unlimited migration without resource rationing.

borededm :

First?

Jimmy Suits :

Hu Kou is pronounced like "Hu Co" as in short for corporation.

Joacim Borgvall :

This means that complete “free movement” is almost never completely unrestricted in practice, since all societies must balance economy, infrastructure, healthcare, security, labor market, and social stability. Then countries differ in how much individual freedom and state planning should weigh most heavily. This is often where the political and ideological differences arise.

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Rick James :

but at what cost

contc7 :

incorrect

Ken98 :

But at what cost ?

Zhou_周🗡️ :

fedpost

HeadofHead :

Propaganda is always half true half BS. This one is about 2:8.

Luji 🇨🇳☭ :

fedpost

G :

at what cost

Yu Zhu :

That’s not true.