Interesting news about gaokao
An interactive robot named Jiajia, who looks very much like a real woman, is unveiled by the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui province, on April 15, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]
Robot aims for first-class Chinese universities in 2017
A gaokao robot, developed under China's super brain project, will take part in the national college entrance examination, or gaokao, in 2017. The robot will be tested on three subjects: Chinese, maths and social sciences. Its aim is to achieve a score higher than the enrollment mark for the key universities in China.
Students use a building's lights to form best wishes for students taking the gaokao test, at No 24 High School in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, on June 3, 2016. [Photo/VCG]
Online game company gives a vacation during the gaokao test
Before last year's gaokao, online game company 37.com noticed its more than 2000 employees had no need to go to offices for work on June 8 to relieve the traffic jam during the gaokao period.
The company's employees, who had children take part in the national college entrance examination, were granted subsidies on travel and accommodation while accompanying their children to the tests.
A special team of traffic police was formed on June 4, 2016, in Weinan, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, to secure the traffic, and help students get to the test venues in time. [Photo/VCG]
Headmaster almost failed to give students test permits
The headmaster of Meiling Middle School in the southern city of Shenzhen was blocked in congested traffic on the way to his school on the first day of gaokao in 2014. Thankfully, a traffic police officer carried him to the school on a motorcycle in five minutes.
People set off fireworks in the shape of the Chinese character "Zhong" (中), which means to win in gaokao, at a high school in Dandong, Northeast China's Liaoning province, on June 5, 2016. [Photo/VCG]
About 10,000 residents gather to send off students before tests
Nearby residents, burned incense and papers and set off fireworks at Xinzhou No 2 Middle School of Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, on June 6, 2014, to send off around 1,000 students before they sat the national college entrance examination.
A mother burns incense to pray for her child to have good results in the this year at a Confucius Temple in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on June 5, 2016. [Photo/IC]
Parents burning incense causes fire
Last year, nearly 1,000 parents burned incense in front of a tree they believed would give good luck to their children to sit gaokao, on June 2.
But the burning incense caused a nearby roof – along with hundreds of ribbons tied to a tree - to catch fire. Fortunately, the blaze was quickly extinguished .
An interactive robot named Jiajia, who looks very much like a real woman, is unveiled by the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui province, on April 15, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]
Robot aims for first-class Chinese universities in 2017
A gaokao robot, developed under China's super brain project, will take part in the national college entrance examination, or gaokao, in 2017. The robot will be tested on three subjects: Chinese, maths and social sciences. Its aim is to achieve a score higher than the enrollment mark for the key universities in China.
Students use a building's lights to form best wishes for students taking the gaokao test, at No 24 High School in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, on June 3, 2016. [Photo/VCG]
Online game company gives a vacation during the gaokao test
Before last year's gaokao, online game company 37.com noticed its more than 2000 employees had no need to go to offices for work on June 8 to relieve the traffic jam during the gaokao period.
The company's employees, who had children take part in the national college entrance examination, were granted subsidies on travel and accommodation while accompanying their children to the tests.
A special team of traffic police was formed on June 4, 2016, in Weinan, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, to secure the traffic, and help students get to the test venues in time. [Photo/VCG]
Headmaster almost failed to give students test permits
The headmaster of Meiling Middle School in the southern city of Shenzhen was blocked in congested traffic on the way to his school on the first day of gaokao in 2014. Thankfully, a traffic police officer carried him to the school on a motorcycle in five minutes.
People set off fireworks in the shape of the Chinese character "Zhong" (中), which means to win in gaokao, at a high school in Dandong, Northeast China's Liaoning province, on June 5, 2016. [Photo/VCG]
About 10,000 residents gather to send off students before tests
Nearby residents, burned incense and papers and set off fireworks at Xinzhou No 2 Middle School of Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, on June 6, 2014, to send off around 1,000 students before they sat the national college entrance examination.
A mother burns incense to pray for her child to have good results in the this year at a Confucius Temple in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on June 5, 2016. [Photo/IC]
Parents burning incense causes fire
Last year, nearly 1,000 parents burned incense in front of a tree they believed would give good luck to their children to sit gaokao, on June 2.
But the burning incense caused a nearby roof – along with hundreds of ribbons tied to a tree - to catch fire. Fortunately, the blaze was quickly extinguished .
