Self-taught examination: Self-taught examination for higher education, referred to as 198 1 approved by the State Council, is a national higher education examination for self-learners.

It is a form of higher education that combines individual self-study, social assistance and national examination, and it is an important part of China's socialist higher education system. It is to promote a wide range of individual self-study and social assistance activities through national examinations, implement the relevant provisions of the Constitution to encourage self-study, train and select professionals with both ability and political integrity, and improve the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation to meet the needs of socialist modernization.

Distance education, also known as online education in some documents issued by the Ministry of Education, is a kind of adult education qualifications. It refers to the teaching mode using TV, Internet and other media, which breaks through the boundaries of time and space and is different from the traditional teaching mode of staying in school.

Adult college entrance examination, referred to as adult college entrance examination, is an entrance examination for adult colleges and universities in China to select qualified graduates to enter higher-level academic education. It belongs to the national education series and has been included in the national enrollment plan.