The Hukou System and Rural-UrbanMigration in China: Processes and Changes*
Kam Wing Chan and Li Zhang
... some Chinese official reports even announced that China's urban populationproportion reached 46 percent in 1987. By their definition, nearly half of the Chinesepeople are urban now! This seeming "great leap forward" is accounted a fact andhighly praised by some western scholars ... But, ... it cannot fool the Chinesepeasants themselves. In their eyes, the hukou is the real standard by which to measuretheir actual status, benefits, and the progress of urbanization.Tiejun Cheng'