10.78 million students take the exam! The national college entrance examination in 2021 begins now.

　　Beijing, June 7 (Xinhua)-Today, the national college entrance examination in 2021 will officially kick off, and 10.78 million candidates will rush to the examination room to meet a big exam on the road of life. How to prevent epidemic in the examination room this year, and how to provide good protection for candidates in various places … For this year’s college entrance examination, this information needs to be understood.

　　10.78 million students went to the exam today.

　　According to the previously released schedule, the unified entrance examination for colleges and universities nationwide in 2021 will be held from June 7th to 8th.

　　The specific subject examination schedule is: June 7, Chinese from 9:00 to 11: 30; Math is from 15:00 to 17:00. On June 8, liberal arts comprehensive/science comprehensive from 9:00 to 11: 30; Foreign languages from 15:00 to 17:00.

　　In addition, some provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) also arranged some examination subjects on the 9th and 10th due to different examination subjects.

　　According to the data of the Ministry of Education, in 2021, the number of applicants for the national college entrance examination was 10.78 million, an increase of 70,000 compared with last year and a new high.

　　In terms of examination room setting, this year, there are more than 7,200 examination centers and 466,000 examination rooms (including 26,000 spare isolation examination rooms), and there are more than 1.4 million staff involved in the examination, including more than 950,000 invigilators.

　　Epidemic prevention is not relaxed. Guangzhou sets up a special examination room for nucleic acid positive candidates

　　Recently, there have been cases of local infection and transmission in some places. According to experts from China CDC, the current situation of epidemic prevention and control is still grim, and it is necessary to continue to implement various prevention and control measures in accordance with the requirements of normalization prevention and control.

　　As early as the beginning of February this year, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Enrollment of Colleges and Universities in 2021".

　　The "Notice" requires that the daily temperature measurement and physical health monitoring of candidates and examiners should be done well, and each test center should be equipped with an anti-epidemic assistant examiner as required, and necessary isolation examination rooms and facilities should be set up, equipped with sufficient anti-epidemic materials.

　　Conscientiously implement measures such as temperature detection, comprehensive disinfection, ventilation and spacing in the examination room. Carry out full coverage epidemic prevention education and training to ensure that all candidates and examiners are familiar with epidemic prevention knowledge and operation procedures.

　　Recently, the epidemic situation in Guangzhou has touched people’s hearts, and local epidemic prevention arrangements have been carried out to ensure the smooth progress of the college entrance examination.

　　At the press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Guangzhou held on June 5, the relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Municipal Health and Wellness Committee introduced that Guangzhou divided the test sites into two categories: ordinary test sites and isolated test sites. In the ordinary examination center, there are ordinary examination rooms, standby examination rooms and isolated examination rooms respectively. Different types of candidates will be arranged in the corresponding examination rooms, and different protection standards and requirements will be adopted to ensure that the trajectories do not cross each other and are completely spaced apart in space.

　　For candidates who are positive for nucleic acid testing, Guangzhou has set up a special examination room in designated medical institutions to ensure that candidates can take the test smoothly to the maximum extent.

　　For candidates in the sealed-off area, candidates with secret access, candidates with sub-secret access, etc., special cars and special drivers are used to shuttle to and from the isolated test sites. The drivers of the special cars have undergone strict health inspection, vaccination and nucleic acid detection.

　　During the flood season, many departments across the country cooperated to prevent flood and high temperature.

　　In June, China entered the flood season in an all-round way, which is in the summer. Flood control and heatstroke prevention and cooling work are also related to whether the exam can be held smoothly.

　　According to the forecast and analysis of China Meteorological Bureau, during the college entrance examination this year (June 7-9), there will be high temperature weather in southern North China, Huanghuai and other places; There are showers in northern and northeastern China; There is obvious rainfall from west to east in the eastern part of southwest China, Jiangnan and South China.

　　Recently, the Ministry of Education, the National Health and Wellness Commission and other departments have instructed all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) to focus on the safety of the college entrance examination and the special inspection of epidemic prevention. In view of the sudden natural disasters, extreme weather, epidemic spread, etc. that may occur during the examination, all localities are required to check the emergency plan and emergency drills to ensure that in the event of an emergency, personnel from all departments can respond quickly, cooperate with each other and handle it safely.

　　From the local point of view, in order to cope with extreme weather, all localities have made arrangements in advance and launched multi-departmental linkage to escort the college entrance examination.

　　At present, Guangdong is in the period of "Dragon Boat Water" rainfall concentration. The Guangdong Provincial Security Committee, the Provincial Third Prevention Office and the Provincial Emergency Management Department issued a notice requesting relevant departments to repeatedly pull the net to check the low-lying areas and hidden points of geological disasters around the college entrance examination room, so as to eliminate potential safety hazards in time. Implement emergency control measures for examination rooms vulnerable to floods, landslides and other disasters.

　　In terms of heatstroke prevention and cooling, on the 4th, Shaanxi Province issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Heatstroke Prevention and Cooling during the College Entrance Examination, requiring education administrative departments at all levels and enrollment examination institutions to do a good job in heatstroke prevention and cooling during the college entrance examination while coordinating the prevention and control of the epidemic, so as to create a cool and comfortable examination environment for candidates.

　　The "Notice" clarifies that the heatstroke prevention and cooling work in the examination room can be done in flexible and diverse forms such as air conditioning, electric fans and ice cubes; Guide each test center to reasonably prepare alcohol wipes, drinking water and other heatstroke prevention and cooling items and medicines, provide thoughtful services for candidates to wait for the exam and ensure the reasonable needs of candidates during the exam.

　　Strictly crack down on cheating in exams and guard against rumors of college entrance examination.

　　In addition to doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control, all localities are also strictly grasping the examination discipline.

　　Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the telephone numbers of the Ministry of Education and the education administrative departments and enrollment examination institutions of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in 2021. The Ministry of Education said that the Ministry of Education and all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) will work with relevant departments to check and deal with the clues as soon as possible, and resolutely safeguard the fairness and justice of the college entrance examination.

　　In addition, the Ministry of Education also introduced that on the eve of the college entrance examination this year, local public security organs have continuously detected many cases of cheating in organizational examinations, and criminal gangs involved used the Internet to recruit cheating candidates in an attempt to use wireless cheating equipment to assist candidates in cheating. The public security organs, together with the education and market supervision departments, will continue to maintain a "zero tolerance" attitude towards the crimes involved in the examination, severely crack down on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities of "assisting the examination" and effectively ensure the safety of the 2021 college entrance examination.

　　At the national video conference on the safety of college entrance examination held in May this year, the Ministry of Education said that it is necessary to strictly examine the qualifications of candidates, resolutely crack down on and control illegal behaviors such as "college entrance examination immigrants", strictly implement the enrollment policy, and take practical and effective measures to prevent impostors from entering universities.

　　On the eve of the college entrance examination every year, there are always some bad institutions or criminals on the Internet who use the college entrance examination to spread false information, mislead candidates and the public, and even commit fraud.

　　To this end, on the eve of the college entrance examination this year, the Ministry of Education, together with the Central Network Information Office and the Ministry of Public Security, sorted out the fake news and false information of the college entrance examination that appeared frequently in recent years, such as "selling the answers to the college entrance examination papers", "betting on the middle questions" and "low scores and high records", reminding the majority of candidates and parents to distinguish online rumors and beware of being deceived.