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Yesterday last year, the first snow in Beijing, the household registration police elder sister was in a good mood and didn't make much trouble. My mother ran away for half a month and finally fell.

Hukou is a high-pressure policy of population management that is still implemented in very few countries in the world, such as China and North Korea. Because of its strong correlation with population welfare, at least in China at present, the hukou policy has been criticized, but people still flock to it.

When my mother was looking for a job after graduating, she aimed for a job that could be assigned a Beijing hukou. I didn't take it seriously at the time, but I didn't object to her proposition. Of course, don't support it, just let it go.

My mother got a job where the salary is only enough for food and accommodation, but there is a quota for collective hukou. Two years later, my mother resigned, for which she paid the savings of the two of us for many years as the price of defaulting after we settled down.

Although the Constitution of the People's Republic of China clearly stipulates that citizens have the freedom to move, the relevant lower-level laws have their own way, the most obvious being the household registration policy and the education policy attached to it.

The hukou policy achieves the purpose of restricting population mobility by restricting people's rights and welfare.

As early as in the era of planned economy, people with urban hukou to eat commercial grains needed to buy grain, oil, rice and noodles with tickets, and money alone could not buy and sell them freely. For those with agricultural hukou, they need to hand in public grains according to the head of the family. Even in the earlier agricultural cooperatives, laborers needed to work and earn work points before they could eat in the collective canteen. Although they could not eat enough, they often starved to death.

The dual policy system of urban and rural areas has brought about the development of cities, while the rural areas have become increasingly withered. This is because the countryside has been feeding the city, while the city has seldom fed back to the countryside, and there is even no policy guarantee at all.

In the 1990s, the wave of migrant workers aroused the rise of the whole country. Although agriculture has implemented household contracting, but with the development of the market economy, agriculture can barely support more family members. If you want to live a better life, rely on the crops in the fields. , does not help, so young people go out to work has become a trend.

At this time, the household registration policy showed great power.

Rural people go to work in big cities, doing the dirtiest, most tiring, and most dangerous jobs up to now, but their wages still belong to the lowest class. The arrears of wages for migrant workers in the early years were the most frequent social news.

As for these migrant workers wandering in cities, it is common for them to have no social security benefits. Work-related injuries and occupational diseases are usually bought out by the workers, and the government is unwilling to provide more protection. If someone goes through public opinion supervision and judicial proceedings, it will also cost a lot. What's more, in Beijing at this time in 2017, in the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, the government used the name of fire prevention and control to evict the migrant workers from their houses and drove them back to their hometowns to cut off the "low-end population".

Most of these rural migrant workers still have their hukou in their home villages, so it is difficult for them to be covered by policy benefits. On the one hand, this situation reduces the labor cost and pressure of the city; on the other hand, it also relieves the city administrators of a lot of headaches and policy benefits for these migrant workers, guaranteeing government tax revenue, but it is not clear The corresponding expenditures are on these people.

The most chilling thing for these rural laborers is not that they can't stay in the city, but that even if they work hard, their children will not be able to study in the city because of the hukou restrictions, and even the public schools around the place where they live will not be able to enroll. In a country where nine-year compulsory education is a legal responsibility, the practice of excluding school-age children from schools by relying on the household registration system of parents and children is obviously against the spirit of the law.

Taking a step back, even after entering high school, the college entrance examination must go back to the place of household registration for reference.

As for the lack of other social benefits such as medical care and pensions, it is not an important thing for children to study, but they still cannot enjoy it, even if they live, study, work and pay taxes in the city for a lifetime.

I would like to thank my mother for moving out of the collective hukou of the unit last year and putting it into the resident hukou under the current house, so that you will have a hukou in Beijing half a month after you were born in the summer, and you will have the rights and benefits related to reading and growth. In order to ensure that, at least I don’t have to go back to the rural areas of southwestern Henan, my hometown, nor to the third-tier cities in the southwest of my mother’s hometown. Instead, I have the education and growth resources of the metropolis.

And this is their ultimate motivation and purpose to protect their own selfish interests by restricting population flow through population policies.

There have been a lot of chores lately, and writing to you has been stagnant for days. After thinking about it, the problems of enrollment and other issues brought about by hukou are far from worrying, but if you want to be truly healthy, grow up happily, study, work, and live, you still need to leave this land as soon as possible, and leave this country full of chaos and lies.

This is also one of the new long-term goals that my mother and I are currently working on.