China's household-registration system denies equal access to public services for rural migrants, who work in the cities but are registered in the villages.
In China's system of householdregistration (known as hukou), children born to rurally registered parents count as rural, even if their parents have migrated to the city, and regardless of where they themselves were born.
"The repeated exposure of hukou counterfeiting scandals in recent months is convincing evidence that the country's householdregistrationsystem is riddled with problems and needs to be streamlined, " says the China Daily.