What is the College Entrance Examination?

The National Unified Examination for General College Admissions, referred to as the "College Entrance Examination", is a selective examination for qualified high school graduates or candidates with equivalent academic abilities.

The unified national examination for admissions to general colleges and universities is administered by units authorized by the national competent authorities or by provincial education examinations with independent propositions; it is uniformly scheduled by the Ministry of Education, and provincial admissions examination committees are responsible for implementation and management. . The Ministry of Education requires that the names of examination subjects in each province (autonomous region and city) that are the same as those of the national unified examination must be consistent with the national unified examination time schedule. ?

Behind the College Entrance Examination

China’s College Entrance Examination is a kind of exam-oriented education, and exam-oriented education does have problems of one kind or another. However, it cannot be denied that the social development over the past 40 years since the resumption of the college entrance examination has fully proved that the college entrance examination has become the fairest mechanism for cultivating and selecting talents in Chinese society, and is also a channel for talent flow widely recognized by society.

And so far, we have not been able to find a mechanism and channel that is more suitable than the college entrance examination and more in line with China's national conditions. The college entrance examination provides a platform for fair competition to millions of families and students with different identities, statuses, and wealth, and provides a broad space for development and opportunities to change their destiny. Of course, for society as a whole, the college entrance examination is not the only channel for talent cultivation and mobility.

In the past thirty or forty years of rapid development of Chinese society, there are two basic channels for the structural flow of human resources. One is the gathering and flow of rural labor force to cities through the army of migrant workers; the other is through the The delivery of the college entrance examination selection mechanism has enabled the flow of high-quality talents to all parts of the country. It can be said that these two basic channels support China’s rapid development.