In the recent decades, many farmers have migrated to urban areas to seek work and better lives. Some families brought their children to study at elementary or junior high schools in the cities. However, according to current regulations, these students have to go back to their hometowns to take entrance examinations for high school and college.

The People's Daily carries a commentary saying that this policy has put the rural students at a disadvantage position in terms of seeking equal access to education.

In the current policy, children of migrant workers are not entitled to take the entrance exams in cities. As a result, they are obliged to take part in the entrance exams held in their rural hometowns. What's worse, the curriculums in rural and urban schools are quite different, putting these students at a great disadvantage when it comes to exam performances.

In response, the newspaper calls on the educational departments to abandon the exam restrictions for the students from rural areas. It concludes by stressing that children of migrant workers should enjoy equal educational opportunity as their urban counterparts.