江苏省吴江市公安局沈卫东同志来稿,就中小城市及农村的户籍制度改革提出了三条建议。他认为,首先是要将户口同附着于其上的各种利益相剥离。户口的作用,从个人来说,是证明公民身份,从国家来说,是通过人口资料为制定政策提供依据,此外的作用都是附加的。由于几十年来一直实行计划经济制度,户口已和其它许多利益联系和纠缠在一起,户口 Comrade Shen Weidong, Public Security Bureau of Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province, put forward three proposals on the reform of household registration system in small cities and rural areas. In his view, the first is to separate the account from the various interests attached to it. The role of hukou, from an individual, is to prove citizenship, from the country, is to provide a basis for policy formulation through population information, and the additional role is additional. Since the system of planned economy has been practiced for decades, hukou has become entangled with many other interests and the hukou