Although close to 70% of social benefits have been decoupled from the hukou, most basic benefits such as education, healthcare and the pension system are still tied in to the hukou system.
Annual tuition fees in many provinces are set to rise from 3000 to 4000 RMB and above, with the highest recorded being Zhejiang's Engineering and Medicine undergraduate fees, which are set to rise from 3600 to 6670 RMB, an increase of 85.28%, and will affect new students matriculating after 2013.
Sources indicate that the public service organizations' pension system reform will be directly implemented nationwide instead of going through the usual process of being implemented through a regional pilot project first
The authors of this article believe that the content of the State Council's “Suggestions for advancing reform of the household registration system” retain a strong ideological lean towards that of a planned economy.
The case of 7 land petitioners who drank pesticide outside the China Youth Daily office in Beijing on July 16 in an effort to draw attention to their grievances is once again making the news.
The National People’s Congress Domestic Legal Committee (全国人民代表大会内务司法委员会)has taken the lead in the drafting of the Charity Law and is expected to submit it for consideration in 2015.
On April 26, Tsinghua University and Peking University jointly launched a program of salon discussions called, “charitable legislation bimonthly talks.” These talks have since been held approximately every two weeks, providing open academic discussion on a range of issues including the tax system and NGO related legislation.
According to the Regulations on the management of foundations (基金会管理条例) and to the measures on the management of foundations' information (基金会信息管理办法), Chinese foundations have to publish annual reports.
The Beijing Municipal Education Commission has reiterated that it will continue to maintain its enrollment requirements for mandatory education for those who have non-Beijing hukou. These requirements are commonly known as the “five proofs.”
On June 16, Guangzhou published a new regulation, the “Guangzhou guidelines on social organization Management”, cancelling the registration funding requirement for civil non-enterprise organizations and allowing them to have their office in private residences.
Yuan Jiechen, director of the NPC Law Committee, explains the features of the new law, in particular the reasons why four reviews were necessary before the final approval.
Feng Yongfeng, founder of the Green Beagle Environment Institute (达尔问自然求知社) and Nature University (自然大学), reviews the ups and downs in civic environmentalism in 2012.