The Regulation Policy Research Of Chinese Census Register Management

Under the traditional planned economy system, Chinese governmenthas regulated the census register management for a long time. Suchregulation polarizes the citizen identity, strictly practices the censusregister management of difference between city and rural areas. It alsorigidly limits the float of census register, sets up the permission obstacles.Such phenomena is historical inevitable and has played its specialhistorical role.This essay basically uses theory of Public Interest Theory，appliesthe analyzing way of both academic studies and case analysis in practice,studying not only the static state but also the development. It alsocompares the Chinese current census register managements with those inforeign countries, and points out the real reason of census register regulation is the process of distribution of public products includinglimited food supplies, employment, medical care insurance andeducation,which are attached to the census register system. So it is socialcontrol and take the permission control as the main instrument. Thecensus register control embodies the gaming process of different interestgroups. The control of census register has its positive effects. At the sametime, the inevitable limitation and problems of control also diminishes thepositive effects of administrative intervention.Finally, the essay discusses the census register reformations invarious areas, indicates that the release of census register control ishistorically inevitable. However, the release does not mean the abandonof controlling. Under the current historic and economic conditions, itneeds a gradual process of totally removing all the benefits of censusregister system and resumes its original function of population registerand management. This essay gives some suggestions such as to adjust thesystems related to census register reasonably, to reset functions of censusregister scientifically, to adjust census migratory policies and guidefeasible population float, to legislate the law of census register as soon aspossible and to insist on classified management.This essay innovatively applies the government control theory toanalyze the census register system, and suggests to reform the traditionalgovernment control theory and means, asserting to use the policies of releasing control and focusing on the analysis of cost-benefit.