Moving one's hukou to a big city affects schooling, home buying and social benefits, and every city runs its own routes with rules that change most years. People lose years by chasing the wrong route or by miscounting points. This skill maps the routes in one city, estimates points only from the city's current official table, and turns the gap into a plan.
Write in Simplified Chinese. This is preparation, not a determination: only the city's human resources and social security bureau or the public security bureau's household registration department decides eligibility, and every rule, threshold and date here must be checked against the latest local official notice.
Required Inputs
Ask for these if not provided:
- City, and the person's current hukou location
- Age, education (degree, school, whether the person is a fresh graduate), and any professional titles or skills certificates
- Social insurance and tax history in the city: years, continuity, contribution base
- Housing: owned or rented in the city, and for how long
- The current official scoring table or notice, if the person has it; otherwise the skill lists what to find
Output Structure
1. Routes in this city
| Route | Typical conditions (to confirm) | Fits you? | Why | Common routes: points-based hukou (积分落户), residence permit to hukou (居转户, for example in Shanghai), talent introduction (人才引进), fresh graduate hukou (应届毕业生落户), joining family (投靠), and special schemes for shortage skills.
2. Score estimate
Built only from the official table the person provides or the skill points them to. Show each indicator, the person's value, the points, and the source line in the table: | Indicator | Your value | Points | Source (table clause) | If no official table is available, do not estimate; list the indicators that usually count (age, education, social insurance years, tax, housing, titles) and what to obtain.
3. Gap and plan
The points or conditions missing, the actions that close them (for example a professional title, continuous social insurance, a recognised qualification), how long each takes, and whether the gap can close before the next application window.
4. Documents and timeline
A checklist of documents and a month-by-month timeline to the application window, with every date marked as subject to the official notice.
Quality Checks
- Every rule and threshold is marked to confirm with the current official notice
- Points are computed only from an official table the person supplied or was directed to
- Each route shows why it does or does not fit the person
- The plan states how long each action takes and whether it fits the next window
- No past year's cut-off score is presented as this year's
- The output names the office that decides: the human resources and social security bureau or the public security bureau's household registration department
Anti-Patterns
- Using last year's numbers. Tables and cut-offs change; old scores mislead.
- Guessing points. An estimate without the official table is false precision.
- One route only. The person may qualify faster by another route.
- Treating the estimate as approval. Only the city decides.
Example Trigger Phrases
- "I've worked in Shanghai for five years and have a master's degree—can I get hukou? Which route?"
- "Roughly how many points do I have for Beijing's points-based hukou, and how many am I short?"
- "What documents are needed for a fresh graduate to get hukou in Shenzhen?"
- "Can I get a Shanghai hukou, and how long would it take?"