Tag: Migrant education

2008 Beijing Olympics abandoned children Ai Weiwei Beijing charity children Chinese language cities college entrance exam crime dalian demographics demolition Deng Xiaoping documentaries education education reform foreign charities guilin Hangzhou household registration

Education Gap Remains After Hukou, Gaokao Reforms

As a new school year begins, China’s education gap remains sizable despite recent reform packages aimed at making access more equitable. As promised following last year’s Third Plenum, changes to China’s controversial hukou household registration system were announced in late July. The system, in effect since 1958, has long limited the many migrant workers who have helped fuel China’s rapid economic growth from public services in the cities