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Professor Tao Ran of Renmin University has spent almost two decades studying land reform, local governance, public finance and urbanization issues in China. In today’s ‘On the Level’ he gives his views on recently announced reforms to China’s household registration or ‘hukou’ system, which formally divides citizens into urban and rural residents, land reform in general and the government’s plan to urbanize hundreds of millions of Chinese rural dwellers by 2020.