Education History

Examination content in Ancient Times In the 2000-year-long examination history of ancient China, Chinese people have tried all kinds of examination contents they could come up with. From the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-23AD) to the Northern and Southern Dynasties (1336-1392), recommendation system was prevailing and examinations played only a supplementary role. The contents of...

Origin of the Name of Zhongguo

In ancient China, Guo referred to city or state. Zhonguo (now it means China) meant the central city or the central state. According to historical books, Zhongguo had five connotations: fist, the capital city; second, the state ruled by the emperor; third, the Central Plains; fourth, the upland region and last, the region dwelled by Han and Xia nationalities. Since the Han Dynasty (2...

Why China is Called China

China is the appellation of our country given by foreigners. The porcelain china is the transliteration of the place name Changnan, which was the old name for the porcelain town of today's Jingdezhen (Jingde Town). In the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), people built their cave-houses and cut logs to make pottery. And in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), people combined the advantages of celad...

Splendid Culture

Classical CultureTraditionally, Chinese culture was dominated by a Confucianist literati, who praised love of learning and moral fortitude. Exercise was looked down upon, apart from archery, which was considered one of the essential skills of a gentleman by Confucius. The novel was looked down upon, and instead short summaries of people's lives, brief essays and so on where praise...

Chinese Cities On-line

Survey of China

Official name: People's Republic of China Population: 1,306,313,812 (July 2005 est.) Population growth: 5.1% (2004) Land area Total: 9,596,960 sq km 　 (land: 9,326,410 sq km; water: 270,550 sq km) Currency: Renminbi (RMB)/Yuan GDP: $7.262 trillion (2004 est.) GDP growth: 9.5% (2004) GDP per capita $5,600 (2004 est.) Higher education students: 1,108.6million (till ...

University Application

Ways to Apply to Study in China 1. Exchanges between governmentsHandled in the light of the bilateral exchanges agreements between the governments. 2. Inter-college exchangesHandled in accordance with exchanges agreements between the colleges or universities.3. Recommendations by communities Applying by means of China's relevant organizations or directly to related universities ...

HSK

1.General Introduction China's Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, known as HSK or the Chinese Proficiency Test is a standardized test at the state level designed and developed by the HSK Center of Beijing Language and Culture University to measure the Chinese proficiency of foreigners, overseas Chinese and students from Chinese national minorities. HSK includes two levels, i.e. the Elementary-Intermedi...

China's Higher Education

The institutions to implement higher education include universities, colleges, and professional schools of higher education. Schools of higher learning undertake teaching, scientific research, and social services. Chinese universities are divided into several categories: some directly under the Ministry of Education, others run by provincial, autonomous regional, and municipal governmen...

China's Education System

The Chinese government has placed priority on developing education, putting forward the strategy of revitalizing the country through science and education, making constant efforts to deepen the reform of educational system, and implementing the nine-year compulsory education. Governments at all levels are increasing investment in education and encourage people to run education through di...