Because he failed to pay hundreds of thousands of yuan in social support fees, Mr. Yang’s four-and-a-half-year-old son from Changping District, Beijing, became a gangster. Because they do not have a household registration, their children cannot fly, cannot go to public kindergartens, and cannot even get vaccinations. What worries Mr. Yang even more is the issue of schooling. He cannot get into public schools, and the tuition fees in private schools are far beyond his financial ability.

The total number of Chinese people, accounting for about 13 million, accounting for 1% of the total population, does not have a household registration, which has become a major issue affecting social fairness and harmony. On November 21, Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun presided over the meeting of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security and the 17th (enlarged) meeting of the Ministry’s Comprehensive Deepening Reform Leading Group. The two major themes of the meeting were one of counter-terrorism and the other of solving the problem of household registration for the unregistered population across the country.

According to the sixth census, about 13 million people in China do not have household registration, becoming commonly known as "black households." According to a survey conducted by Wan Haiyuan, associate researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, and others in July and August 2014, more than 60% of these illegal households are people who have given birth to children, and others include people who have not taken the initiative to register. Persons without household registration caused

by various reasons such as abandoned babies, unmarried births, loss of relevant documents, cumbersome household registration procedures or inaction of grassroots departments.

Because they do not have a household registration, most of them have no social security and lose normal work, life and educational opportunities. As the "real-name system" gradually becomes more popular, their lives are more affected and travel becomes difficult.

1% of a country’s population does not have household registration, which has become a strange status quo in China’s population management. However, according to relevant regulations, the problem of black accounts should not exist.

Article 2 of the "Regulations on Household Registration of the People's Republic of China" that came into effect in 1958 clearly stipulates: All citizens of the People's Republic of China must perform household registration in accordance with the provisions of these regulations; Article 7 stipulates: Within one month after the birth of an infant, the head of the household, relatives, caregivers or neighbors shall apply for birth registration to the household registration authority at the place of the infant's permanent residence. According to this regulation, all Chinese citizens born in China are registered with a household registration without any additional conditions.

However, for grassroots family planning departments in various places, there is an urgent need for a starting point to promote family planning work. Although the regulations clearly do not allow any additional conditions for citizens to register their household registration, in the specific work, another contradictory opening has been opened: the public security department serves as a part-time committee member of the population and family planning committee at all levels , when the newborn settles in, he must perform relevant duties, that is, he is required to show his parents' "Family Planning Service Certificate" and report the relevant situation to the local family planning administrative department.

It is precisely because of this that the bundling of "fine for having more than one child" and "new-born household registration" has become a common "local policy" in some places. Unable to apply for an account. Household registration thus became a bargaining chip in family planning work.

According to incomplete statistics, in 2014, at least 20 provinces (municipalities, autonomous regions) across the country had clear regulations or cases, and family planning certificates must be presented to register for household registration. Among them, Six provinces and cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Liaoning, Sichuan, Henan, and Hubei, have expressly stipulated in their provincial household registration systems that link family planning with household registration.