Abstract
China’s urban and rural education inequality is a potential problem of
human capital accumulation, which has long been a concern for
researchers and policymakers. Equality has become the main goal of
education, although the Chinese government has taken various measures to
provide citizens with basic education, the material and financial
resources to achieve this goal are limited, especially in rural areas.
This paper uses data from field visits and the questionnaire which was
completed by some students from two schools in both urban and rural
areas in China with a comparison of the student’s family background,
social capital, parents’ expectations of education and educational
resources. The results of the questionnaire survey show that compared
with rural students, urban students have more advantages in most factors
of the questionnaire survey mainly in family as well as school
environment sections…