Study On The Reform Of The Household Registration System And The Population Flow

With the developing of the market economy, the disadvantages of the present household registration system in China have appeared daily; especially the present household registration system has become the principal institutional obstacle to the rational population flow. So to reform the present household registration system completely is not only the request of the development of the market economy, but also accelerates the rationalization of the population flow and makes the flow more scientific. This paper, with the intention of accelerating the rationalization of the population flow, explores the historical and present household registration systems in China and other countries, then analyses the relations between the present household registration system and the social mobility by the sociological methods after having identified the relationship between the population flow and the social mobility, and draws a conclusion from the analysis that if we want to rationalize the population flow, we should not cancel but reform the present household registration system completely. Finally this paper comes up with some thoughts about what measures that we should take to reform the household registration system according to the realities of China, and then forecasts some characters of the social mobility that the reform brings.