Students taking National College Entrance Exam gets special care.
The high school seniors taking the National College Entrance Examination from Tuesday are receiving every comfort and consideration they can get from communities nationwide -- whether it's rides to the testing sites or noise restrictions.
A total number of 7,230,000 students are attending the college entrance examination, witnessing an unprecedented increase of 1,100,000 over last year. Female students take up 45 per cent of the total.
In South China's Guangdong Province, for example, traffic around 38 of the 54 exam sites will be detoured, and eight bus stops will be temporarily relocated 30 minutes before and during the exam to minimize noise.
Quiet zones are set up within 500 metres of the sites. That means no street hawkers. No loud equipment at catering and entertainment places during the English listening test. And in a country where economic growth is usually king, no construction noise throughout the day. At night, the construction had better be a key project if it’s loud enough to bother sleep time.