The civil service examination is an employment examination organized by the competent department of civil servants to recruit the first-level chief clerk and other civil servants below the equivalent rank.
According to the Civil Service Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the first-level chief clerk and other civil servants below the equivalent rank shall be recruited by public examination, strict inspection, equal competition and merit-based admission. When recruiting civil servants in ethnic autonomous areas in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, appropriate care should be given to ethnic minority applicants in accordance with the law and relevant regulations.
base period
In Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there were no civil servants in a strict sense. State officials are mainly relatives of the king, and their official positions are hereditary. There were many vassal States in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the monarch also wanted more talents to participate in management. Confucius put forward a slogan: "Learning to be excellent is to be an official". Confucius' slogan announced the idea of building a management and service team with high quality, high consciousness and high efficiency, and determined the basic development direction of the civil service system.
After Qin Shihuang unified the world, the civil service system was basically established, but there was no strict examination, and the interview was the main thing, supplemented by pre-job training; The basic principle of pre-job training is "taking officials as teachers".
After the Qin Dynasty, China experienced a period of fluctuation of the civil service system. One stage is aristocratic system, and the consorts are in charge of politics, and the whole civil service system has been hit hard, so the examination naturally cannot be carried out normally; The other stage is war, which is the center of everything, and it is difficult for scholars to find a place to use it.