Regional discrimination in China
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Regional discrimination in China Due to the scope of human activities are mostly in the same region, the people of other regions are usually not familiar with each other, toward or against a person of a certain regional group is the treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit, such as the Chinese in Peking, Shanghai, Henan, etc.

When outsiders come to this area for which he was not familiar with , the locals will be in accordance with the prejudices of society to explain its character, therefore the potential bias and demonizing. If there are more people of a geographical move to another area, the bias and demonizing the problems will be significantly and become a social problem..

Currently, discrimination based on regional is defined as adverse action against another person, that would not have occurred had the person been of another regional. This is considered a form of prejudice in certain enumerated circumstances in China..

Regional discrimination even exists if there is prejudicial treatment against a person or a group of people who speak a particular dialect.

Regional discrimination in Higher Education Entrance Examination

A university usually sets a fixed admission quota for each province, with a higher number of students coming from its home province. As the number and quality of universities is very uneven across China, it is argued that people are being discriminated against during the admission process based on their region. For example, compared to Beijing, Henan province has fewer universities per capita. Therefore an applicant in Henan needs a significantly higher score than his Beijing counterpart to get into the same university. However, this is similar to the practise of regional universities in other countries which receive subsidies from regional governments in addition to or in place of those received from national governments..

In recent years, varied admission standards have led some families to relocate for the sole purpose of advancing their children's chances of entering university..

Regional discrimination in recruitment

In the early days of China,the application of Civil servant is mainly offer to the local household registration. The residence registration normally appears on their personal identification documents and it led many employers and local governments to discriminate based on the permanent residence of applicants.For example, the Beijing Municipal Government had a hiring policy allowing Beijing non-residents to work in only 12 out of 204 types of jobs..

Regional discrimination in urban and rural areas

After Communist Party
Communist party
A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

 took power of China mainland,Chinese government began using the family register system to control the movement of people between urban and rural areas. Individuals were broadly categorised as a "rural" or "urban" worker.Urban dwellers enjoyed a range of social, economic and cultural benefits while China's 800 million rural residents were treated as second-class citizens..

The millions of peasants who have since quit the land remain stuck at the margins of urban society, and have been blamed for the rising crime and unemployment. Under pressure from their citizens, city governments impose discriminatory rules. For example, the kids of "Nong Min Gong" (workers who come from counties) are not allowed to enter city schools with their parents, even now they have to live with their grandparents or uncles in order to go to their local hometown schools in counties. They are called home-staying children by Chinese governments. Chinese researchers reported that there are about 130 millions home-staying children without parents year by year..

Discrimination against a particular region

As a result of unbalanced economic development, unfair discrimination usually follows the specific particular regional stereotyping held by a society.

Discrimination against people from Henan: Because of its largest farmer population in China, huge quantities of rural migrant workers in cities, and continuous emigrating refugees and victims resulted from natural calamities and political tragedies in the 20th century, many of the rural farmers and migrant workers from this area suffered abusive consequences in this privileged state system and snobbish media context.

Discrimination against people in Beijing: Because Peking dwellers enjoy the privileges powered by the central authorities, they are vested interests beneficiaries in the so-called counter-discriminators' eyes, therefore suffering hostilities and disdain from time to time by people from other regions in this country.

Discrimination against people in Shanghai: As the migrants - majority of them come from southeast to southcentral areas of china - flow increasingly into Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

, they are often blamed for the rising crime and unemployment. Shanghai Hukou
Hukou
A Hukou or huji refers to the system of 'class system' residency permits which dates back to ancient China, where household registration is required by law in People's Republic of China and Republic of China ....

 is very important and attractive to those people who lack and chase for it, for it brings much convenience and welfare to those who hold it, consequently, sometimes Shanghai dwellers are also despised and counter-discriminated by people from other regions in this country which is based on privileges and hedged by vested interest groups.

Regional discrimination in Hong Kong and Macao

In both Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 and Macao
Mação
Mação is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 400.0 km² and a total population of 7,763 inhabitants.The municipality is composed of eight parishes, and is located in the Santarém District....

Special Administrative Region of People's Republic of China, there are some people who discriminated against the mainland Chinese, call them as "the mainland Aberdeen", meaning that from the mainland..
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