China's gaokao drills high school students on subjects including Chinese, English, mathematics, science and humanities.
Images from across the country taken Friday morning showed students and well-wishers preparing for the first session.
The number of students taking this year’s multi-subject gaokao series is set to be a record high, with the Ministry of Education saying that 13.42 million candidates have registered for the high-stakes tests. The job market that fresh graduates enter is no longer as rosy as it once was as the world’s second-largest economy struggles to achieve a post-pandemic recovery, with high youth unemployment a significant concern.
In the central city of Wuhan, crowds of parents stood behind a barrier as test takers clutched documents on their way into the examination centre.Areas around testing centres are often tightly controlled, with traffic diverted and honking prohibited to ensure a comfortable environment so that test takers can concentrate.
Liang worked his way up from a menial factory job to establish his own construction materials business but said he has yet to become “an intellectual” worthy of Sichuan University.5 Chinese ships in Taiwan ‘restricted’ waters week before inauguration
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