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China's make-or-break exam

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What?

A record number of 10 million mainland students took the National College Entrance Examination at the end of last week.

How?

How many years has the exam been running? Thirty years. It was abolished for 11 years during the Cultural Revolution.

Why?

Because, at the time, universities were seen as 'bourgeois hotbeds of nurturing elitism'. Deng Xiaoping restored the system.

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