Where is the place of origin?

According to the document of the Ministry of Public Security [1995]9 1, a citizen's native place should be his grandfather's place of residence (domicile) when he was born; If grandfather died, fill in the location of the household registration at the time of grandfather's death; If the grandfather has not left the permanent residence, fill in that the grandfather should leave the permanent residence; After a citizen registers his native place, if his grandfather moves his household registration, his native place will remain unchanged.

General area:

Provinces/autonomous regions/municipalities directly under the Central Government/Hong Kong Special Administrative Region/Macao Special Administrative Region/+counties/county-level cities/districts+towns/streets+villages/neighborhood committees

The names of prefecture-level divisions (prefecture-level cities) are not written in the middle of provincial and county-level and town-level administrative divisions. Compare the current administrative divisions with the places where ancestors lived for a long time.

Distribution areas of some ethnic minorities:

Autonomous region/province/municipality directly under the central government+autonomous county/county/county-level city+ethnic townships/townships/towns

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region:

Inner Mongolia+Banner/Autonomous Banner (county level)/county/municipal district/county-level city/+ethnic townships/townships/towns

Extended data

Origin refers to someone's original birthplace before moving to a place.

The domicile is not necessarily the person's ancestral home or native place, especially in economically developed areas, some new places that started construction after the founding of New China and places that have developed rapidly since modern times. A large number of people's native place is not their domicile place. Generally, these people moved from other places to new places after China's reform and opening up or in the era of planned economy, according to the distribution of countries at that time or in modern times.

According to the tradition of China for thousands of years, native place is an expression of ancestral home, which is the difference between household registration and native place.

Generally speaking, the place of origin is paternal, and some are maternal; In terms of ancestral home, ancestral home refers to the place where ancestors lived for a long time, divided by region.

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