# The Regulations on Household Registration bind peasants to rural hukou

Date: 1958

## The fact

On 9 January 1958 the PRC promulgated Regulations on Household Registration, creating a nationwide hukou system that classified citizens as rural or urban and tied grain, school, and legal residence to the register. Mao’s government used it to stop ‘blind inflows’ to cities. During the subsequent famine, the same lock made flight a punishable act. Later museums, competitions, UNESCO lists, and translations are not this Fact. The CCP, State Council, PLA, and local cadres may share the file; they do not erase a documented decision, and they are not a licence to treat every local killing as his handwriting.

## Context

Internal-passport logics existed in the Soviet example. Public security organs kept the files. The Leap is a separate Fact; hukou is the data-and-movement machine that trapped rural people in procurement districts. Later reform-era hukou is not this 1958 instrument. Later museums, competitions, UNESCO lists, and translations are not this Fact. The CCP, State Council, PLA, and local cadres may share the file; they do not erase a documented decision, and they are not a licence to treat every local killing as his handwriting.

Shared responsibility is part of The Regulations on Household Registration bind peasants to rural hukou. Naming Mao Zedong does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1958-01-09 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Refworld carries an English text of the 9 January 1958 regulations. Britannica independently explains hukou. The two URLs differ. No Factrail original register extract is offered. Later museums, competitions, UNESCO lists, and translations are not this Fact. The CCP, State Council, PLA, and local cadres may share the file; they do not erase a documented decision, and they are not a licence to treat every local killing as his handwriting.

Official or archival record: Regulations on Household Registration of the PRC, 9 January 1958 (English carrier) (https://www.refworld.org/legal/legislation/natlegbod/1958/en/33632; UNHCR Refworld / PRC statute reprint).

## Significance

Worsening [personal-data-protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection) and mobility-control path. Complex (State Council plus police). High confidence on the statute date. It aggravated famine deaths without being the Leap itself. Later museums, competitions, UNESCO lists, and translations are not this Fact. The CCP, State Council, PLA, and local cadres may share the file; they do not erase a documented decision, and they are not a licence to treat every local killing as his handwriting.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 9 January 1958 regulations created a binding hukou system under Mao’s government. Not established: that every later urban-rural gap is solely this text. Later museums, competitions, UNESCO lists, and translations are not this Fact. The CCP, State Council, PLA, and local cadres may share the file; they do not erase a documented decision, and they are not a licence to treat every local killing as his handwriting.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat hukou as a census curiosity. Do not twin it with the Leap itself; it is the mobility lock that made flight illegal. Mixed effects of The Regulations on Household Registration bind peasants to rural hukou are separate paths.

The attached driver is personal-data-protection. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Mao Zedong: https://factrail.ai/people/mao-zedong

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/hukou
- https://www.refworld.org/legal/legislation/natlegbod/1958/en/33632

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cn-mao-hukou-1958