Solid step to put aside hukou

South China's Guangdong province has finally extended its hukou, or household registration, recognition to a large number of unregistered local children. It is to be hoped the removal of the attached conditions that can disqualify children from receiving a hukou can also be popularized in other parts of the country as soon as possible to incarnate the "people-first" principle and the concept of "all people are equal".

Guangdong has witnessed a peak in its hukou registrations since July when the authorities reiterated that such conditions as whether or not a child's parents have been granted a family planning certificate are no longer a precondition for a hukou.

Given that parents who give birth to more than one child when they are not allowed to under the national family planning policy may not have such a certificate, some children have previously remained unregistered.