Link: In China, urban or rural means have or have-not

Dan Chung filming China’s migrant children using the Canon 550D / T2i « DSLR News Shooter

A children’s school for those lacking Beijing hukou (described as China’s apartheid, according to Wikipedia entry, that is inherited, and discriminates between rural and urban dwellers, and causes them to receive different quality and/or quantity of social services) may be destroyed to make room for development.

If you want to know what it’s like to live under the hukou system, check out Confession of a ‘Second Generation Migrant Worker.’

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