Nonresident parents in Beijing have been signing a petition against a policy that will continue to limit their children’s eligibility to take the national college entrance exam in the city. For the past three decades in China, high school graduates could only take the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, in their home provinces. That’s where their hukou, or household permits, were registered. However, 2011 statistics show that one in six Chinese citizens no longer lives where their hukou was registered. Having to return to one's home province in order to be eligible to take the national college entrance exam has created a huge problem for hundreds of thousands of Chinese families.

北京的非戶(hù)籍家長(zhǎng)近日聯(lián)名向教育部遞交了一份訴訟書(shū)，反對(duì)北京市剛剛出臺(tái)的異地高考方案。在過(guò)去的三十年里，中國(guó)的高中畢業(yè)生只能在其家鄉(xiāng)省份參加高考，即他們的戶(hù)口所在地。然而，2011年的數(shù)據(jù)顯示，每六名中國(guó)公民中就有一名不在其戶(hù)口所在地居住。必須回到原籍才有資格參加高考，給中國(guó)千百萬(wàn)個(gè)家庭帶來(lái)了巨大的問(wèn)題。