359 thousand test takers in east China’s Jiangsu province sat for this year’s national college entrance exam or gaogao. The annual college enrollment test resumed its normal procedures after it was postponed last year from early June to early July due to the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Hexi campus of Nanjing Jinling High School arranged for seven coaches to transport the test-takers to the test sites at Zhonghua High School that is 1.2 kilometers apart.
The teachers checked the test-takers’ admission cards and personal identification cards to ensure that they are qualified for the crucial exam.
All the test-takers are required to have their temperatures taken before entering the test venues as the authorities have strengthened the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control.
Parents were seen cheering up the exam-takers outside the test sites by wearing red clothes, red masks and cheongsam in a triumphant posture.
In Nantong city, a test-taker was caught in a traffic accident and a police officer rushed him to the test site on a motorbike in 12 minutes.
Some test-takers and their parents were trapped in an elevator of a hotel near a test site in Hai’an city.
Police officers, fire fighters and elevator maintenance workers rushed to the hotel to free the test-takers and the parents from the elevator.
At five Monday afternoon, the first day of the exam was over. The test-takers appeared relaxed and at ease.
