Gaokao opens the door wider for all

People’s Daily Online

4th July 2025

Gaokao opens the door wider for all

By Li Xinshu

Amid China's 2025 national college entrance examination, known as gaokao, scenes of quiet determination played out across the country.

In Suzhou, east China's Anhui Province, Wang Ziwen, a student with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as "brittle bone disease", was gently assisted into the exam hall by staff. In Ziyang, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jiang Xintong, paralyzed from the waist down due to myelitis, arrived at the examination room 30 minutes early via a special access route. In Shenzhen, Guangdong Province in south China, Chen Xinhe, the only fully blind candidate in the province, took his braille exam with the support of special education teachers, a counselor, and medical staff arranged by the test center.

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