Since the founding of New China 70 years ago, China has gradually established a unified national enrollment system for colleges and universities based on the examination and selection system. Although this system suffered heavy losses in the Cultural Revolution (hereinafter referred to as "Cultural Revolution"), since 1977 resumed the "College Entrance Examination", after the recovery and development stage of reform and opening up, the college enrollment system based on the examination and selection system has been continuously reformed and improved.

Among them, the "new college entrance examination" reform is the most systematic and comprehensive reform of the examination enrollment system in China since the resumption of the college entrance examination, which highlights the direction of the reform and development of the college enrollment system: expanding the autonomy of college enrollment; Comprehensive evaluation, multiple admissions, and guide middle schools to implement quality education; Selecting talents scientifically and giving consideration to social equity.

The reform of the "New College Entrance Examination" has put forward five major tasks for deepening the reform of the examination enrollment system:

First, improve the allocation of enrollment plans, increase the admission rate of college entrance examinations in the central and western regions and populous provinces, and increase the number of rural students attending key universities.

The second is to reform the examination form and content, improve the high school academic level examination, speed up the classified examination in higher vocational colleges, and deepen the reform of the college entrance examination content.

The third is to reform the enrollment mechanism, reduce and standardize the extra points in exams, improve and standardize independent enrollment, improve the enrollment selection mechanism of colleges and universities, and improve the admission methods.

The fourth is to reform the supervision and management mechanism, strengthen information disclosure and strengthen institutional guarantee.

The fifth is to start the comprehensive reform pilot of the college entrance examination, reform the examination subject setting and reform the enrollment mechanism.

The reform of "New College Entrance Examination" pays attention to fairness, students' interests and personality development. The reform of the form and content of the "New College Entrance Examination" abolished the division of arts and sciences, and students were free to choose subjects. According to the "new college entrance examination" programs in various places, the results of the college entrance examination are composed of three unified examination subjects: Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages, and three elective subjects. Elective subjects are selected from politics, history, geography, physics, chemistry, biology (and technology).