1977 10 2 1, major domestic media announced the resumption of the college entrance examination, and revealed that this year's college entrance examination will be held nationwide in one month. 1977 the date of the Shanghai college entrance examination was set at 65438+February 1 1 2, which was the only winter college entrance examination in the history of new China and the most hasty one, because the news of resuming the college entrance examination was at19771.

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/kloc-in the winter of 0/977, 5.7 million candidates from China entered the college entrance examination room that had been closed for more than ten years. In that year, 273,000 freshmen were admitted to colleges and universities nationwide; 1978,6100000 people applied for the exam and 420000 people were admitted. Grade 77 students enter school in spring 1978, and grade 78 students enter school in autumn. The two admissions are only half a year apart.

1977, Comrade Deng Xiaoping, who had just returned, presided over a symposium on science and education and made a decision to resume the college entrance examination that year. In the same year 65438+ 10 65438+February, the State Council officially announced that the college entrance examination would be resumed immediately that year. 1977 winter and 1978 summer, China ushered in the largest exam in the history of the world, with a total number of applicants reaching 1 1.6 million.