Record 13.42 mln Chinese students take fiercely competitive college exam

19:39, 7 June 2024

On Friday, a total of 13.42 million young people across China began participating in this year's college entrance test, known as the gaokao. This number is a record high since matriculation resumed in China in 1977, and marks an increase of 510,000 students compared to last year, the Ministry of Education revealed, Xinhua reports.

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Chinese society, renowned for valuing young people's education, is enthusiastically mobilized to give a helping hand to gaokao candidates.

An examinee enters a national college entrance examination site in Kaili, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, June 7, 2024. Photo credit: Long Jianrui/Xinhua

Examinees wait to attend the national college entrance examination at an examination site in Beijing, capital of China, June 7, 2024. Photo credit: Xinhua/Ren Chao

An examinee reviews outside a national college entrance examination site in Tianjin, north China, June 7, 2024. Photo credit: Xinhua/Sun Fanyue

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