Officials who enabled exploitation of exam policy must be punished

The education authorities in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region received reports in the run-up to the national college entrance exam that hundreds of high school graduates in neighboring Hebei province, mostly children of Party and governmental officials, were taking the exam in the region under assumed identities in order to enjoy the favorable policies extended to the autonomous regions. Comments:

China boasts a strict hukou (residence registration) system, yet corruption enables people to get false identities. In this instance, the officials that bent the law and hurt social justice were the parents of the students. The government department in charge of managing the hukou has no excuse and a probe is needed to find out who is responsible.

Beijing News, June 9