Education ministry prohibits gender-based college recruiting

The Ministry of Education is banning universities from recruiting students based on gender.

The new regulation, released on Thursday, comes as universities and provincial admissions offices begin recruiting high school graduates after they took the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, in early June.

During a conference on Thursday about the admission of the Class of 2014, the ministry released a number of recruitment regulations, one of which banned schools from determining enrollment ratios based on gender.