This statement is not accurate enough. Colleges and universities have different requirements for candidates with the same academic ability. There are still many universities that require papers to be published, many of which are not 2 1 1 (universities that are not too bad generally have this requirement).

However, they have different requirements for papers. When you say publishing papers in provincial journals, it should be the lowest level requirement, and it is usually required to be published in the national or provincial core journals of this major. The scope of the core journals of this major is much smaller, and it is still quite difficult to publish them.