{"id":57277,"date":"2023-08-04T23:58:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/04\/china-to-relax-internal-migration-rules-to-kickstart-economy"},"modified":"2023-08-04T23:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:58:20","slug":"china-to-relax-internal-migration-rules-to-kickstart-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57277","title":{"rendered":"China to relax internal migration rules to kickstart economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to <em>hukou <\/em>urban<em> <\/em>quotas will offer easier access to education, healthcare and other benefits<\/p>\n<p>China is to relax its rules on internal migration, making it easier for people to settle in small cities in an attempt to boost its ailing economy and spur growth, the government has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry of public security (MPS) announced plans to lower the bar for obtaining an urban <em>hukou<\/em>, or household registration. Beijing wants local governments to cancel <em>hukou <\/em>restrictions in cities with fewer than 3 million people, and relax the restrictions for cities with 3-5 million people, the MPS said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/04\/china-to-relax-internal-migration-rules-to-kickstart-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to hukou urban quotas will offer easier access to education, healthcare and other benefitsChina is to relax its rules on internal migration, making it easier for people to settle in small cities in an attempt to boost its ailing economy and spu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57278,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277\/revisions\/57278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}