1, basic introduction

1977 10 10/2 1 day, the headline of people's daily, "major reform of college enrollment", announced that the college entrance examination, which had been interrupted for more than ten years, would be resumed. 1977, the first college entrance examination enrollment was resumed after the college entrance examination. In this college entrance examination, more than 5.7 million candidates took the exam and 273,000 people were admitted.

/kloc-in the winter of 0/977, the first exam after the college entrance examination was resumed. The examination is divided into two subjects, namely, politics, Chinese, mathematics, history and geography (historical geography) and science and engineering subjects, namely, politics, Chinese, mathematics, physics and chemistry (physical chemistry). Those who apply for foreign language majors should try foreign languages.

2. Restore the significance of the college entrance examination.

1977 The resumption of the college entrance examination system not only changed the fate of several generations, but also laid a good foundation for the development and take-off of China in the new period and beyond, which not only has far-reaching historical significance, but also has great practical significance.

The resumption of the college entrance examination is a turning point in the national conference on college enrollment. The enrollment targets for resuming the college entrance examination are: workers and peasants, educated youth returning from the countryside, 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.

The influence of resuming the college entrance examination:

1, improve social atmosphere

After the resumption of the college entrance examination, the principle of fair competition and merit-based enrollment was adopted, which purified the social atmosphere. The greatest social significance of resuming the college entrance examination is that everyone is equal before the scores, which has improved the social atmosphere and ushered in the spring when China society respects knowledge and talents.

2. Promote social mobility

Before the early 1990s, those who passed the college entrance examination became mental workers and farmers became urban residents after graduation. After young people graduate from high school, the college entrance examination is the decisive first step in life. This is the fundamental reason why all walks of life pay close attention to the college entrance examination, which is like a grand festival every year.

The college entrance examination can change the fate and make many people jump out of the farm and become college students with the status of "quasi-cadres". At that time, the college entrance examination could change people's identity and status, and the function of promoting social class mobility was quite powerful.

Many young intellectuals who went to the countryside and returned to their hometowns, as well as young people who worked in factories, went directly to college from fields and factory workshops, which changed considerably. After graduation, most of them took up important positions, and many of them became the backbone of the future society.

3. Maintain social stability

The resumption of the college entrance examination has wiped out the turbidity current of "reading is useless" and "composition-only theory" and brought the first spring breeze of respecting knowledge and talents to the land of China. The resumption of the college entrance examination is an important measure to bring order out of chaos, which has brought China's talent training back to a healthy track.