China's 2022 national entrance exams for postgraduate studies kicked off on the morning of December 25. More than 360 candidates who were stranded in Dalang Town of Dongguan due to the pandemic, sat the exam at Dalang Central Primary School and Xinmin Primary School in the town. Relevant departments took various measures to ensure the exam went safe and smoothly, which made the candidates feel well cared for.

This year, 11,172 people applied for the exam in Dongguan. The city prepared 19 test centres and 933 test rooms, including 8 regular test centres, 2 standby isolation test centres, 1 test centre in the closed-off management area, 1 in the prevention area, and 7 standby test centres. According to statistics, a total of 11 test centres were put into use. 8,826 candidates actually attended the exam, with an attendance rate of 79%, which was basically the same as last year.

Due to the pandemic, the exam preparation work in Dongguan faced a series of challenges that had not been encountered in previous years, such as collecting the information of the stranded candidates, setting special test rooms, and the deployment of cross-provincial and cross-city examination papers. The test centres in Dalang, which received much concern, saw 368 candidates applying for the exam and 329 actually sitting the exam. The attendance rate is 89.4%, which is higher than that of the whole city. The first exam was conducted smoothly on the morning of December 25.

He Bingji, a second-level researcher in the Dongguan Education Bureau, introduced that the municipal government attach great importance to the organization of the exam in Dalang. Dongguan Education Bureau coordinate the epidemic prevention and control and organize the examination affairs with the highest standards, striving to achieve the goal of "not to affect the exam because of the epidemic, not to cause the spread of the epidemic because of the exam, and all candidates can sit the exam safely."