ZHIYONG ZHU

Abstract: Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization in recent years have greatly accentuated China’s social and regional inequalities. These inequalities stem from many factors,including the rise of an urban middle class, a change in the status of women, a resurgence of ethnic identities, an increase in rural-to-urban migration, disparities between Han Chinese and ethnic minorities, and lingering poverty in remote areas. These phenomena are expected to be addressed by education. Throughout the more than sixty-year history of the People’s Republic of China, educational equity has been a controversial theme in policy making and practice. This study explores the development of access to higher education for ethnic minorities in the policy context since the 1950s and analyzes inequality between Han Chinese and ethnic minority groups.

Key words:higher education access;equality;China;ethnic minnorities

总结：1、市场改革，财政分权和经济全球化加剧了中国社会和地区的不平等，这些不平等源于许多因素，包括城市中产阶级的崛起，女性地位的改变，道德理论的复兴，从乡村到城市的迁移，汉族和少数民族地区之间的差距以及偏远地区的贫困等等。

2、以上问题可能需要通过教育这一手段来解决。拥有六十多年历史的中华人民共和国在政策制定和实践中，教育公平一直是颇具争议的话题。本文探讨了自1950年以来政策文本中少数民族受高等教育的发展状况以及分析了汉族和少数民族群体之间的不平等现状。

来源：Chinese Education and Society

vol. 43, no. 1, January–February 2010, pp. 12–23.