How to provide fair chances of education for everyone is a challenge faced by Chinese educators. Now the State Council is formulating plans to improve the system. Giving rural and urban children an equal opportunity to study in cities is a key aspect.

Roughly twenty percent of the students in this school are from outside of Beijing.

They are among the fourteen million children who move from rural areas to cities with their parents.

Migrant student Tian Yujie said, "I came to Beijing when I was little, so it's like my hometown. I want to go to senior high school in Beijing because life here is better. I like living in cities."

With education reform on the way, it's hoped studying in cities will be easier for rural students. Eventually they will receive and education that is equal to city dwellers.

Cui, Principal of Chang'an Primary school, said, "We used to require six documents from migrant parents, some are mandatory proof from their hometown. But now the new regulation requires only three documents from the receiving city. Things are much easier for them."

But primary school is just the first stop along their education journey, which is usually full of difficulties.

CCTV reporter Wang Mangmang said, "The second generation of migrant workers have a dream bigger than money. Fairness in education is one way to pursue that goal. And this requires equal access, which means changes in household registration must first take shape...to allow general equality in an urban setting."

This is one of the few schools specially for migrant children in Beijing. It is cheaper and much easier to get in.

Thirteen year old Wang Defu is from eastern Fujian Province. He is already worried about getting into university.

The education and household registration system mean he will have to go back home for the college entrance exam, with different tests and marking standards from place to place.

Migrant student Wang Defu said, "My parents are very hard-working. I wish to live and work in Beijing in the future to repay them one day."

And his proud mother is behind him all the way.

A migrant worker said, "We certainly will do everything we can to support him. But we can do nothing about the regulations."

It will take time and a lengthy debate to solve the complicated issue. But Wang and his family hope the reform could eventually bring some good news.

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