An equal education?
With future policy still unclear, parents with hukou in major cities are fighting to maintain the status quo.
Many argue that changing the rules would lead to a further overcrowding of metropolitan education systems and could open the door to abuse.
"Natives of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong, for our babies, let us be united in our fight against the policy," wrote one netizen as part of a discussion on Sina Weibo, a popular micro-blogging website.
Du, a Beijing mother and an opponent of a policy change, told China Daily she feels that the capital's education resources would struggle to cope with any more students.
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