article_snippet: Chao Hu, Anhui, China
article_snippet: In Chao Hu, a village in the inland province of Anhui, a dead-end track passes by half-finished housing projects and abandoned fields.
article_snippet: China's industrial pollution made China's industrial pollution out here, but the jobs haven't.
article_snippet: Everyone of working age in Chao Hu has gone to the cities to find work, leaving the old and very young behind.
article_snippet: There is a generation of Chinese society that lacks security and trust.
article_snippet: " Unintended consequences of mass urbanization and migration are not unique to China.
article_snippet: China's much-hated hukou system registers families as either rural or urban.
article_snippet: Critics say China's much-hated hukou system has created a vast underclass of cheap labor to help drive China's manufacturing revolution.
article_snippet: Recognizing some of China's manufacturing revolution failures, the Chinese Communist Party has proposed reforms of China's much-hated hukou system including doing away with temporary residence permits.
article_snippet: The topic is under discussion this week at the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp parliament.
article_snippet: Though it is better than before, China's much-hated hukou system is a huge problem," says Professor Fan Bin, of the Huadong Technology Institute.