Students commute for better schools

More than 136,000 children with Beijing residency permits, or hukou, are attending schools in different districts or counties in the city from where they live, increasing family expense and causing traffic problems.

A report released recently by the Beijing academy of educational science showed that students who commute daily account for almost 15 percent of the total number of middle and primary school students in the city.

As many as 73,000 students from Chaoyang district and another 44,000 from Fengtai travel to schools in other districts every day.