25% of students plan to work abroad

More than 25 percent of junior high and primary school students born in Shanghai expect to work and live abroad after finishing school, a survey has found.

By contrast, the figure for students who were born outside the municipality and now study in schools in Shanghai is 18 percent.

The population and development studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences published the report on Tuesday after handing out a questionnaire and interviewing nearly 1,500 students between the ages of 9 and 14 over the last three months.