This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-08-19 07:32
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
On Aug 19, 1994, the country's open civil servant exam was introduced to select qualified officials for the central government. A total of 4,300 people applied for the three-day exam in Beijing, competing for 490 vacancies.
Before that, most government workers were selected from a pool of college graduates, retired army officers or senior managers from State-owned enterprises.
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