Timely crackdown on gaokao cheats helps guarantee fairness

SINCE LAST MONTH, the public security authorities in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and Liaoning, Shandong, Hubei, Guangdong and Sichuan provinces have been cracking down on the producing and selling of high-tech wireless equipment tailor-made for cheating in exams. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

The action of the public security departments, which comes before the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, that began on Thursday, has eradicated 12 gangs engaged in the business, and more than 100,000 sets of such equipment were seized.

Statistics shows about 9.75 million people will sit the exam this year, the highest number of examinees in eight years. And some of the targeted provincial-level regions have the highest number of gaokao takers, which makes their exams more competitive.