Netizens who oppose the removal of household registration restrictions on the college entrance exam said that Beijing is already overloaded, and the removal of household registration restrictions would greatly increase the floating population in the city, thereby leading to a lack of educational resources and a series of social problems such as further rises in home prices.
Expert says minority should transfer interests
Guan Xinping, a sociologist at Nankai University, said that unfair distribution of educational resources is the ultimate cause of the phenomenon of moving from one’s hometown to take the college entrance exam in a big city. Residents of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai have long enjoyed more superior educational resources than people of other places. Contradictions have naturally occurred as more and more people demand fair and equal redistribution of educational resources.
Guan believes that fairness is crucial to solving the problems concerning the college entrance exam. As "inequality is worse than deficiency," he suggested domestic universities and colleges recruit fair proportions of students from various places.
Guan said that a small minority of people whose interests are damaged by the exam reform should transfer certain interests on the basis of social equality. Due to college enrollment enlargement and other factors, the number of college entrance exam takers in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai has increased, though at a slower pace than that of their counterparts in other places.
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