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Comments twitter facebook Sina Microblog reddit BEIJING, May 30 -- A total of 9.39 million Chinese students have registered to attend thecountry's national college entrance examination, the world's largest, which falls on June 7.
The number of participants in the exam increased by 270,000, or three percent more thanthat of the previous year, according to statistics revealed by the Ministry of Education onFriday.
The ministry said that 28 provinces and regions will for the first time arrange for 56,000 "migrant students," referring to children of migrant workers, to take the exam in theplaces where they currently reside. Previously, they had to return to their birthplaces,where their household registration is recorded, for the exam.
The number of candidates from rural areas has increased by 260,000 this year, thanks toa set of encouraging government policies.
This year, China's universities will reserve an extra enrollment quota of 8,500 just forrural students.
The exam attracted some nine million participants in 2013. Success on the exam, alsoknow as the "gaokao," is seen by many parents as an important way of changing theirchildren's fate.
(Editor:Wang Xin、Gao Yinan)
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