The National College Entrance Examination (full name: National College Entrance Examination for English) is a college entrance examination held in People's Republic of China (PRC) (excluding Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province Province). It is a selective examination for ordinary high school graduates and candidates with equivalent academic qualifications. The general college entrance examination is held on June 7th and 8th every year. In some areas, the examination is extended to June 9th due to its subject arrangement.
The national unified examination for enrollment of ordinary colleges and universities is authorized by the competent department of the state or independently proposed by the provincial education examination system; Unified scheduling by the Ministry of education, the provincial admissions examination committee is responsible for the implementation and management. The Ministry of Education requires that the names of examination subjects in all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) are the same as those in the national unified examination, and must be consistent with the national unified examination schedule.
College entrance examination is a system for selecting new students in colleges and universities. China has a history of 1300 years, which once showed the superiority of selecting talents and influenced East Asian countries. 1905, in order to develop new education and cultivate practical talents, the Qing court abolished the imperial examination system and introduced the western school examination system instead. The establishment of the modern college entrance examination system in China has two important sources: one is the traditional examination thinking and value formed by the imperial examination system, and the other is the mode and means of the western modern examination system.