Five ministries and commissions, including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office, jointly issued the Notice on Implementing the Special Plan for Targeted Enrollment in Poverty-stricken Areas. Starting from this year, during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, about 1000 undergraduate enrollment plans will be arranged in the total increment of the annual enrollment plans of national colleges and universities, and targeted enrollment will be implemented for candidates from concentrated contiguous areas with special difficulties who take the national unified examination. The range of students is 2 1 680 poverty-stricken counties in provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) determined by the State Council. It is understood that the targeted enrollment special plan will focus on organizing targeted enrollment in colleges and universities with a number of undergraduate enrollment as the mainstay. Colleges and universities undertaking the task of implementing the special plan will recruit students in agriculture-related majors such as agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, geology and mineral resources, machinery, normal universities and medicine according to the needs of economic and social development in poverty-stricken areas, especially rural areas; The state arranges the number of provincial plans according to factors such as the proportion of students in poverty-stricken areas and professional needs; Students take the national unified college entrance examination, and are admitted after the undergraduate course is approved in advance and before the start of a batch of undergraduate courses.