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Chongqing is the latest and largest municipality directly under the administration of the central government and the only one in China's vast inland regions. Sun Zhengcai, a new Politburo member at the 18th Party Congress, became Chongqing's party secretary in November 2011. The former minister of agriculture and later party secretary of Jilin, Sun has demonstrated a down-to-earth working style. Policy-wise, he continues but refines what Chongqing has been doing, with possible breakthroughs in some areas.

On the social policy front, the new Xi-Li government will continue the minsheng project started by the Hu-Wen government. Meanwhile it will seek to make breakthroughs on other fronts, such as urbanisation, anti-corruption and so on. On social stability, the new administration will be facing an increasingly vibrant and complex society which makes it even harder to contain social and political pluralism in China.

China relies heavily on the hukou system to manage internal migration. Over time, urban China has been segregated into local hukou holders and migrants. New realities are beginning to challenge the approach of exclusion and segregation. A new round of hukou reforms is underway in many cities and provinces. The issue of integrating the "floating population" is finally on the reform agenda.

In early April 2009, the Chinese government released a Guideline and an Action Plan on health care reform. By 2020, China plans to establish a functioning system that is affordable and accessible. In sharp contrast with the retreat of the state from the health care sector since the 1980s, the Chinese government is now willing to play a much larger role in providing basic healthcare to its citizens, rural or urban. (East Asian Pol/GIGA)

Since China's recovery from the global financial crisis in late 2009, coastal China has been confronted with massive shortage of migrant workers. The Pearl River Delta alone needed one million more workers. Labour shortage clearly signalled structural changes in China's labour market with the rise of second generation migrant workers. (East As Pol)

China's higher education system has undergone many changes in the reform period. The country aspires to build better universities that those in the US