Registration (Hukou) has a deep and unavoidable influence on one's education, welfare, jobs, marriage, and etc. Worse still, registration (urban/rural/collective/registration-free status) directly determines what kind of school your child is to attend. Not to mention those issues faced by recent graduates from universities as job-hunters.
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