According to the website of the Ministry of Education, the number of applicants for the national college entrance examination in 2023 is 12.91 million, an increase of 980000 over last year and another all-time high. The Ministry of Education, together with the member units of the inter-ministerial joint meeting of the national unified educational examination work, makes overall planning and careful arrangements, guides all localities to do a good job in examination organization and examinee service, and goes all out to achieve the goal and task of "safe college entrance examination."