Millions of Chinese students sit gruelling college entrance exams

Students enter a school on the first day of China's national college entrance examination, known as the gaokao, in Beijing on June 7, 2023. - AFP

BEIJING (AFP): Millions of Chinese students sit for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday (June 7), the first since the country lifted zero-Covid rules that forced classes online for months on end.

China's education ministry says a record nearly 13 million students are registered to take the exams -- known as "gaokao" -- this year.