On Reforming the College and University Entrance Examinations

As late as 1949, the colleges and universities in our country still followed the old system and recruited and admitted their students separately, with each college and university following its own methods and principles. From 1950 to 1951, however, we began to gradually put into practice a method by which the colleges and universities within each greater administration region recruited and admitted students jointly. Then, in 1953, we began to implement the First Five-Year Plan in this country. In order to cultivate cadres in a planned and methodical way, we began, in 1952, to implement a nationwide centralized or unified student recruitment and admissions policy for all the colleges and universities throughout the country.