CCTV News:The Ministry of Education held a press conference today (September 15th) to introduce the progress of the reform of the examination enrollment system since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Wang Hui, director of the College Students Department of the Ministry of Education, said that up to now, the Ministry of Education has successively issued a series of supporting policies with four pillars and eight pillars, such as implementing the high school level examination, strengthening and improving the comprehensive quality evaluation, standardizing the college entrance examination, implementing the strong foundation plan, promoting the classified examination of higher vocational colleges, and reforming the enrollment of art and sports examinations. It has guided 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) to start the comprehensive reform of the college entrance examination in five batches, and all localities have formulated reform implementation plans and organized them in an orderly manner in light of actual conditions. An examination enrollment model of classified examination, comprehensive evaluation and multiple admissions has been formed, which has improved the system and mechanism of promoting fairness, scientific selection and strong supervision, and improved the enrollment system of modern education examinations with China characteristics.
At the same time, the Ministry of Education has deepened the reform of examination content, and the educational function of college entrance examination proposition has been continuously strengthened. Implement the fundamental task of cultivating people by virtue, build an examination content system to guide students’ all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, and further strengthen the educational function and active guiding role of the college entrance examination. Strengthen the connection between teaching and examination, improve the quality of propositions, lay a solid foundation, and focus on examining students’ key abilities such as independent thinking and applying what they have learned to analyze and solve problems. The number of provinces that have increased the use of national unified proposition papers has reached 27.