A Study on the Compulsory Education of Migrant Workers' Children in Zhongshan City

To provide migrant worker's children with proper education is a major task to retain talents and promote education equality. Taking Zhongshan City,which features of a large size of migrant worker's children,mainly from outside Guangdong province and educated in private-funded schools,as a sample,this paper details the relevant policies provided for migrant workers' children to receive compulsory education in Zhongshan City,analyzes the challenges that the city faces in aspects like insufficiency of school positions in public-funded schools,education fund,enrollment for students from outside Guangdong and development of private-funded education,and proposes several suggestions to deal with challenges,including the expansion of public school position,the increase of public investment,and the provision of more opportunities to high school for migrant workers' children,regulating the education enrollment system and supporting the development of private education.