During the period of 1977, the college entrance examination system in China, which was interrupted for ten years due to the influence of the Cultural Revolution, was restored, and China once again ushered in the spring of respecting knowledge and talents. 1977 In September, the Ministry of Education of China held a national college entrance examination work conference in Beijing, and decided to resume the national college entrance examination that had been suspended for 10, and select talents for university by unified examination and merit-based admission.
This is a turning point decided by the National Conference on College Admissions. The enrollment targets for resuming the college entrance examination are: workers and peasants, educated youth who go to the countryside and return home, demobilized soldiers, cadres and fresh high school graduates.
The meeting also decided to give priority to key colleges, medical colleges, normal colleges and agricultural colleges when enrolling students, and the students will be uniformly distributed by the state after graduation.
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The decision to resume the college entrance examination was made by Deng Xiaoping at a symposium on science and education on August 6th. However, some ideas about resuming the college entrance examination began to brew long before the end of the Cultural Revolution. From 65438 to 0952, China began to implement unified university enrollment and established the college entrance examination system in New China.
Shortly after the "Cultural Revolution" began,1June 3, 966, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued a notice to reform the college entrance examination method. On July 24th, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued a circular again, demanding that "from this year on, colleges and universities enroll students, cancel the examination and adopt the method of combining recommendation and selection".
From 1966 to 1969, colleges and universities in Chinese mainland stopped enrolling students, educated youth went to the countryside, and university teachers were sent to work in the May 7th cadre school. Higher education is completely paralyzed.
1970, in order to carry out Mao Zedong's instructions that "universities should still be run" and "select students from workers and peasants with practical experience, and then go back to production practice after studying in school for several years", some universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University began to recruit students of workers, peasants and soldiers.
197 1 year, the national education work conference stipulated that colleges and universities should resume enrollment and recruit students of workers, peasants and soldiers who have graduated from junior high school for more than two years.
1970 to 1976, according to the principle of "voluntary application, mass recommendation, leadership approval and school review", 295 colleges and universities nationwide recruited 940,000 workers, peasants and soldiers for seven sessions. The mainstream of workers, peasants and soldiers is good. They have become the inheritors of culture and science in the turbulent times and the backbone of economic and social construction.
However, due to the cancellation of the entrance examination, the education level of workers, peasants and soldiers is very different. According to the survey in Beijing 1972 in May, 1 1, the preschool education level of students: 20% above junior high school, 60% above junior high school, equivalent to 20% in primary school.
Putting these students with different levels in one classroom for university education has brought great difficulties to educational institutions and affected the construction of high-level scientific and technological teams. Peking University and Tsinghua are nicknamed "Beijing Middle School" and "Tsinghua Middle School".
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