School staff welcome students as they enter a school during China's National College Entrance Examination, known as gaokao, outside a high school in Beijing on June 7, 2025. - AFP
BEIJING: Hopeful parents accompanied their teenage children to the gates of a busy Beijing test centre on Saturday (June 7), among millions of high school students across China sitting their first day of the highly competitive university entrance exam.
Nationwide, 13.35 million students have registered for the multi-subject "gaokao" series this year, according to the Ministry of Education, down from last year's record-high 13.42 million test takers.
