Ministry of Education: Significantly reduce the college entrance examination bonus items and gradually cancel 95 kinds of local bonus items.
On the morning of September 9th, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Ten Years in China", introducing the achievements of education reform and development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and answering reporters’ questions.
Huai Jinpeng, Minister of Education, said that the examination enrollment system is the basic education system of the country, which is related to the national development plan, the vital interests of the people and the healthy growth of teenagers. This is a big thing that everyone and every family are concerned about.
In 2014, the State Council issued the Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Examination Enrollment System, which initiated a new round of examination enrollment system reform in China. The Ministry of Education has accordingly issued a series of documents and supporting policies for examination enrollment reform, guiding 29 provinces to carry out comprehensive reform of college entrance examination in five batches, basically forming a China-specific enrollment examination model with classified examination, comprehensive evaluation and multiple admissions, improving the institutional mechanism of promoting fairness, scientific talent selection and strong supervision, and improving the enrollment system of modern education examinations with China characteristics. Mainly in five aspects:
First, regional urban and rural enrollment opportunities are more fair. We will continue to implement the enrollment cooperation plan to support the central and western regions, and focus on the central and western provinces and populous provinces. We will continue to implement the special plan for key universities to recruit students from rural and poverty-stricken areas, from only 10,000 in 2012 to 131,000 this year, with a total enrollment of more than 950,000 students. Further implement and improve the entrance examination policy for migrant children of migrant workers, and more than 1.68 million migrant children have taken the college entrance examination in the inflow areas.
Second, the orientation of quality education in examination evaluation has been continuously strengthened. A comprehensive quality evaluation system for senior high schools has been generally established in various places. Strengthen the educational function of the college entrance examination proposition, build an examination content system to guide students’ all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, highlight the ability examination and strengthen the connection between teaching and examination. Vigorously promote the classified examination of higher vocational colleges and adopt the evaluation method of "cultural quality+vocational skills". More than 3 million candidates have passed the classified examination every year in China, accounting for more than 60% of the total enrollment of higher vocational colleges.
Third, the talent selection method is more scientific and standardized. Over the years, the number of college entrance examination plus points has been greatly reduced and strictly controlled. Five types of national college entrance examination plus points have been cancelled, and 95 types of local plus points have been gradually cancelled, so as to promote the accuracy of minority points. Since 2020, we have started to implement the strong foundation plan, focused on the country’s major strategic needs, and actively explored the selection and training of top-notch innovative talents in basic disciplines. In the past three years, we have recruited more than 18,000 people. We will further promote the examination enrollment reform of art majors and high-level sports teams in colleges and universities, and further improve the fairness and scientificity of selection.
Fourth, the system cage is further tightened and woven. Strengthen information disclosure, carry out the "sunshine project" of college enrollment in depth, and strictly implement a series of enrollment bans such as "30 prohibitions" and "eight basic requirements". Vigorously promote strict examination and treatment, and severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities involving examinations. Since 2020, it has actively responded to the epidemic situation in COVID-19, creating the experience of China in organizing large-scale examinations under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control.
Fifth, the comprehensive reform of the college entrance examination has been steadily advanced. Up to now, 29 provinces across the country have started the comprehensive reform of college entrance examination, and the new college entrance examination implements optional subjects, which breaks the past fixed subject combination mode of "literature comprehensive" and "science comprehensive", and ordinary high schools implement "course selection and class shifting" to varying degrees. Colleges and universities further optimize the curriculum and pay more attention to the cultivation of talents with thick foundation and wide caliber.
The examination enrollment system is the country’s basic education system, and the Ministry of Education will continue to deepen reform according to the country’s economic and social development and talent training needs to better serve the national strategy.