Culture&Life | Record 13.42 mln Chinese students take fiercely competitive college exam-Xinhua
Culture&Life | Record 13.42 mln Chinese students take fiercely competitive college exam
Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2024-06-07 18:15:17
An examinee claps hands with teachers outside a national college entrance examination site in Beijing, capital of China, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)
BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) -- 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.
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 by Long Jianrui/Xinhua)Examinees wait to attend the national college entrance examination at an examination site in Beijing, capital of China, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)Examinees wait to attend the national college entrance examination at an examination site in Beijing, capital of China, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)Examinees clap hands with their teachers before entering a national college entrance examination site in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)An examinee waves to his family at a national college entrance examination site in Tianjin, north China, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)An examinee reviews outside a national college entrance examination site in Tianjin, north China, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)An examinee shakes hands with his teacher before entering a national college entrance examination site in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)An examinee claps hands with his teacher before entering a national college entrance examination site in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)
Family of examinees wait outside a national college entrance examination site in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)An examinee hugs her parent outside a national college entrance examination site in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Wu Zhizun)Examinees wait for exams at a national college entrance examination site in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Huang Bohan)Parents wait for examinees outside a national college entrance examination site in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)An examinee hugs a teacher outside a national college entrance examination site in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)Teachers encourage examinees outside a national college entrance examination site in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Tao Liang)Volunteers encourage an examinee outside a national college entrance examination site in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Huang Bohan)Examinees wait to attend the national college entrance examination at an examination site in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Bo)Examinees enter a national college entrance examination site in Beijing, capital of China, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)An examinee claps hands with a person dressed as a mascot sending best wishes at a national college entrance examination site in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Bo)Parents of examinees wait outside a national college entrance examination site in Beijing, capital of China, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)An examinee walks to enter a national college entrance examination site in Tianjin, north China, June 7, 2024. (Photo by Du Penghui/Xinhua)A special bus for transporting students is pictured at a national college entrance examination site in Qinzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)■
