Hukou
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Hukou is a system of household registration used in mainland China. The system itself is more properly called huji, and has origins in ancient China; hukou is the registration of an individual in the
An individual household's register or hukou booklet. The local police station held a copy of these records in its central register.
Sports field of a high school in Beijing.
Many rural migrants find work as laborers in cities.
Children who migrate with their parents face difficulties not experienced by their local counterparts.
Gaokao
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The Gaokao, also known as the National College Entrance Examination and the Nationwide Unified Examination for Admissions to General Universities and Colleges, is the annual nationally-coordinated pro
Hukou
…hukou had to pay inflated admission fees of 3,000 – 5,000 yuan – out of an average annual household income of 10,000 yuan – and were required to take The National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) at their hukou locality, where it is often harder to get into college. Since 2012, some regions began to relax the requirements and allow some…
Gaokao admission card issued by Shaanxi in 2021
A 2013 banner at Chongqing Nankai Secondary School announcing it as an examination venue for the 2013 Gaokao
Parents and teachers outside Beijing Bayi School during the 2016 National College Entrance Examination
A banner on the HUST campus in Wuhan congratulates top exam score achievers from the university-affiliated high school