With new cities popping up literally over night, and an estimated 200 million peasants leaving the countryside to live in urban areas in the past decade, China is exploring plans to abolish certain "legal distinctions between urban residents and peasants in 11 provinces." By allowing peasants to register as urban residents, the government claims it would give rural inhabitants much more freedom to migrate within their own country, and begin to do away with some of the old population control policies begun by Mao in the 1950's. But many are still rightly skeptical. Follow in the NYT.
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