College entrance restrictions eased for migrants

The Chinese Government has required provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions to implement measures that allow migrant students to sit college entrance exams in cities where their parents work. This lifts restrictions caused by the household registration system.

Shandong, Fujian and Anhui provinces have already publicized that migrant students can have equal rights as local students, if they have attended high schools in the province for three consecutive years. The northeastern Heilongjiang province has also stated that migrant students can now take entrance exams in the province, if they can prove they're residents and their parents work there.

Jiangsu province will also follow suit in 2013. More than half of the province across the country have expressed their willingness to support the policy, and are expected to release plans by the end of this year.

The public is expecting concrete moves from major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, where a majority of Chinese migrant workers are. But so far none of them have given a clear date for a policy proposal.