Greater social fairness

China's household registration system, or hukou, has long separated urban and rural citizens in a discriminative manner. Public voices criticizing this traditional dual system and calling for it to be abolished have been much heard in the past decades. The groundbreaking reform is ready to put this hukou duality to an end.

rmzxb.com.cn, July 30

Reform of the household registration system has to respect the will of citizens. Where and when to be a city dweller should be up to people themselves, instead of being pulled into an urban net. Hard as the reform might be, the government is obliged to implement it by all means and promote fairer policies to make the discriminatory hukou system obsolete.