China addresses social welfare reform & urbanisation drive

BEIJING: Among the issues China's top leaders tackled this week as they hammered out their policy roadmap, some may determine whether children attending the likes of the Pengying school in Beijing fulfil their dreams.

Thanks to China's system of internal passports, or hukou, parents in search of better jobs in the capital, or other urban areas, leave behind the public services they are entitled to as residents of their home villages – pension, healthcare insurance and free public schooling.