Getting their children into a local public (state) school is not easy because such schools have restrictive admission quotas and Taiwanese students do not have urban residence permits in mainland China, which means that they are required to pay temporary enrollment fees ranging from RMB20,000 to RMB30,000 a year.
退而求其次，要進當地重點公辦學校，卻又因名額稀少並不容易。而且屬於「境外人士」的台灣人在大陸沒有戶口，要念當地學校得負擔「借讀費」，（也就是一般俗稱的「贊助費」），一年約人民幣 2 到 3 萬元不等。中國不疼，台灣不愛