Chengdu recently unveiled the details of a pilot program that will unify the household registration (hukou) system, effectively abolishing the differences between urban and rural hukou.

最近，成都公布了统一户口制度试点工程的细节，该工程将会有效地消除城乡户口间存在的巨大差距。

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The over40-year household registration system like an invisible ribbon hampers the free migration of people.

已实行40年的户籍制度像一条无形的带子束缚着人们自由流动。

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The existing household registration system, which has been practiced for more than 40 years, like an invisible ribbon, is hampering the free flow of people.

但已经实行了40多年的户籍制度还是像一条无形的带子，束缚着人们的自由流动。

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That is the earliest possible repeal of the country's household registration system, or hukou, which limits the access of rural migrants to public services in the cities where they work and live.

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One of the greatest issues for China's 250 million migrant workers is the "hukou" system of household registration.

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Worse still, the system of household registration, or hukou, defines even long-staying urban migrants as rural residents, cutting them out of housing, education and other benefits.

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