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.

北京的非戶籍家長近日聯名向教育部遞交了一份訴訟書，反對北京市剛剛出臺的異地高考方案。在過去的三十年里，中國的高中畢業生只能在其家鄉省份參加高考，即他們的戶口所在地。然而，2011年的數據顯示，每六名中國公民中就有一名不在其戶口所在地居住。必須回到原籍才有資格參加高考，給中國千百萬個家庭帶來了巨大的問題。