Today, the 2021 National College Entrance Examination will officially kick off, with 10.78 million candidates heading to the examination venues to face a major test on their life journey. How to prevent the epidemic in examination rooms this year and how to ensure the safety of examinees in various regions... Here is the information you need to know about this year's college entrance examination.

10.78 million students took the exam today

According to the previously released schedule, the 2021 National Unified Examination for Admissions to Regular Institutions of Higher Learning will be held from June 7th to 8th.

The specific examination time arrangement for each subject is as follows: On June 7th, Chinese will be from 9:00 to 11:30. Mathematics: 15:00 to 17:00. On June 8th, from 9:00 to 11:30 for liberal arts Comprehensive/Science comprehensive. Foreign language: 15:00 to 17:00.

In addition, some provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have also arranged some examination subjects on the 9th and 10th due to different examination subject Settings.

According to data from the Ministry of Education, in 2021, the number of applicants for the national college entrance examination reached 10.78 million, an increase of 70,000 compared with last year, setting a new record high.

In terms of examination venue setup, this year, a total of over 7,200 examination centers and 466,000 examination rooms (including 26,000 backup isolation examination rooms) have been set up across the country. There are more than 1.4 million examination-related staff members, among whom over 950,000 are invigilators.

Guangzhou has set up special examination rooms for candidates with positive nucleic acid test results while not relaxing epidemic prevention measures

Recently, some local infection and transmission cases have emerged in certain areas. According to the assessment of experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the current epidemic prevention and control situation remains severe, and it is necessary to continue to implement all prevention and control measures in accordance with the requirements of regular prevention and control.

As early as the beginning of February this year, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Enrollment Work of Regular Colleges and Universities in 2021".

The Notice requires that daily temperature checks and health monitoring of examinees and examination staff be carried out, and that each examination site be equipped with a deputy chief examiner for epidemic prevention as required. Necessary isolation examination rooms and isolation facilities should be set up, and sufficient epidemic prevention materials should be provided.

Strictly implement measures such as temperature checks upon entry, comprehensive disinfection of examination rooms, ventilation, and maintaining a proper distance. Carry out comprehensive epidemic prevention education and training to ensure that all candidates and examination staff are familiar with epidemic prevention knowledge and operation procedures.

Recently, the epidemic situation in Guangzhou has been on everyone's mind. The local authorities have made epidemic prevention arrangements to ensure the smooth running of the college entrance examination.

At the press conference on epidemic prevention and control held in Guangzhou on June 5th, a relevant official from the Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission introduced that Guangzhou has classified examination sites into two major categories: ordinary examination sites and isolation examination sites. In the regular examination sites, regular examination rooms, backup examination rooms and isolation examination rooms have been set up respectively. Candidates of different types will be assigned to corresponding examination rooms respectively, and different protective standards and requirements will be adopted to ensure that their trajectories do not intersect and they are completely separated in space.

For candidates who test positive for nucleic acid, Guangzhou has specially set up dedicated examination rooms in designated medical institutions to ensure that they can take the exam smoothly to the greatest extent.

For candidates from the sealed-off areas, close contacts, secondary close contacts, etc., special vehicles and dedicated drivers will be used to pick them up and drop them off at the isolation examination sites. The drivers of the special vehicles have all undergone strict health checks, vaccinations, nucleic acid tests, etc.