{"645206":{"#nid":"645206","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"After 63 Years, China Rethinks Strict Residency Rules","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFei-Ling Wang, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in the article \u0026quot;After 63 Years, China Rethinks Strict Residency Rules,\u0026quot; published March 5, 2021 in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EVoice of America.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article explores policy changes in China that loosen the restrictions imposed upon residents that wanted to move from rural to urban areas.\u0026nbsp;Wang, who has studied the \u0026quot;hukou\u0026quot; policy extensively, spoke to the change\u0026#39;s potential impact on the labor market.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFei-Ling Wang, a professor of international affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology and the author of \u0026ldquo;Organization Through Division and Exclusion: China\u0026rsquo;s Hukou System,\u0026rdquo; told\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sixthtone.com\/news\/1006887\/first-chinese-province-scraps-residency-restrictions\u0022\u003ESixth Tone\u003C\/a\u003E, a state-owned English-language online magazine based in Shanghai, that the removal of settlement restrictions was \u0026ldquo;a bold step in the right direction to ease restrictions of labor mobility.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is very much in line with the general trend of localization of the hukou administration, signaling a progressive relaxation of the control of domestic migration and a welcome effort of reducing the urban-rural barriers, at least within a province,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/east-asia-pacific\/voa-news-china\/after-63-years-china-rethinks-strict-residency-rules\u0022\u003EFull article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2021-03-10 20:05:20","changed_gmt":"2021-03-10 20:05:20","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"scam-awareness","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/east-asia-pacific\/voa-news-china\/after-63-years-china-rethinks-strict-residency-rules","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"574741":{"id":"574741","type":"image","title":"Fei-Ling Wang","body":null,"created":"1473436975","gmt_created":"2016-09-09 16:02:55","changed":"1475895383","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:23","alt":"Fei-Ling Wang","file":{"fid":"207184","name":"feilingwangweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":52156,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg?itok=tmsC6w_F"}}},"media_ids":["574741"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"167256","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}