Record number of candidates to sit postgraduate entrance exam

The number of candidates enrolled in postgraduate studies has also greatly increased in the past four decades, from 10,708 in 1978 to 806,103 in 2018, with a rise anticipated for 2019 as well.

Among the candidates, the number of previous exam takers has surged in recent years, accounting for almost half of the total number of candidates this year.

Liu Xiaomeng, who graduated from a landscape architecture specialty at a university in Shandong province last year, will sit the exam for the second time.