Thousands can choose to sit for national college exam in Guangdong, instead of returning home

Nearly 10,000 children whose parents are migrant workers in Guangdong province will be allowed to take this year's college entrance examination - or gaokao - in the province without returning to their hometown, according to the provincial examinations authority.

It is the first year that South China's economic hub, which attracts tens of millions of migrant workers from across the country, will lift all the restrictions regarding hukou, or household registration, for students entering the college entrance exam.