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The National College Entrance Examination (NCEE)
dictates how almost every facet of China s
educational system is administered. As early as
primary school, students are forced to become locked
in intense competition, battle hordes of
examinations, cope with insufferable pressure, and
abandon childhood. Inequity between urban and rural
education is spiraling out of control. Cries for
change to a more quality education that will
relieve the students burden are in the air, but they
are being met with fierce resistance by those who
claim NCEE meritocracy provides their only hope.

Many people are cognizant of the serious problems
facing China s educational system, but very few seem
able to describe how they can be resolved. This paper
will set-up and bring-down the most difficult and
unsolvable problems of Chinese education. New and
original ideas are going to be injected to replace
the shortsighted and misguided suggestions currently
proffered, and these ideas will explain exactly how
China can create an educational system that will
benefit all students equally.

Challenges of Reform: Ending the Dominance of the Gaokao ( ), Beginning the Future of Chinese Education