> along with requiring higher gaokao scores to get into urban universities Students from the same province, rural or urban, subject to the same standard. the r

> along with requiring higher gaokao scores to get into urban universities Students from the same province, rural or urban, subject to the same standard. the real gap is between different provinces, e.g. urban students from province X living a modem fancy city life can still be at disadvantage compared to students from the rural part of Beijing living their boring village life. Note that the gap between different provinces have been there for hundreds of years[1]. > Nor can they ever sell this land and move to the cities unless the government explicitly compensates them for confiscation. They can't even use the land as collateral for a bank loan to upgrade their farming infrastructure. They would basically be treated as serfs if they didn't become migrant workers in the cities. Serfs? You mean they were given the land for free and they are allowed/encouraged to rent out the land to generate an income, this is now the new definition of serfs? Maybe the government who gave them the land should issue an apology and compensation to all those received such free land? [1] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E5%8C%97%E6%A6%9C%E6%A1%88 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E5%8C%97%E6%A6%9C%E6...