{"605773":{"#nid":"605773","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Point-Based System Launched for Beijing Permanent Residency","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/wang\u0022\u003EFei-Ling Wang\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology, was interviewed in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EStraits Times Press\u003C\/em\u003E, April 12, article \u003Cem\u003E\u0026ldquo;\u003C\/em\u003EPoint-Based System Launched for Beijing Permanent Residency.\u0026rdquo;  The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Wang Fei-Ling, from the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s Sam Nunn School of Interna-tional Affairs, noted that the latest changes were part of a trend of us-ing hukou to attract talent to cities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeijing first declared its intention to roll out a point-based system in 2015. Similar systems have been launched in the past few years in such cities as Shanghai and Shen-zhen.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Low-skilled and low-wage workers from outside have never had much chance to obtain a Beijing hukou, even though they may have been an indispensable part of the Beijing economy for a long time,\u0026rdquo; said Prof Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFind the full article in \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/point-based-system-launched-for-beijing-permanent-residency\u0022\u003EThe Straits Times\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Ewebsite.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2018-05-02 17:23:43","changed_gmt":"2018-05-02 17:26:35","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"West Village Commons","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/point-based-system-launched-for-beijing-permanent-residency","dateline":{"date":"2018-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"574741":{"id":"574741","type":"image","title":"Fei-Ling Wang","body":null,"created":"1473436975","gmt_created":"2016-09-09 16:02:55","changed":"1475895383","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:23","alt":"Fei-Ling Wang","file":{"fid":"207184","name":"feilingwangweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":52156,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg?itok=EfFc5PHj"}}},"media_ids":["574741"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"623","name":"Technology"},{"id":"3100","name":"Beijing"},{"id":"7555","name":"workers"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}