Chinese society is known to be conservative when it comes to such topics, and the new sex-ed textbook is challenging people to talk about sex and homosexuality openly. (Photo : Getty Images)
An interactive robot that looks like a real woman, Jiajia, will take the college entrance examination in 2017, although she would do it alone in a closed room. During the exam, Jiajia would be disconnected from the internet to ensure no cheating.
For the 9.4 million young people sitting the two-day gaokao in 2016, which begins on Tuesday, there would be tougher measures to ensure the graduating students could not cheat. China Daily reported that the examinees would need to pass several checkpoints, including facial recognition, fingerprint verification and metal detector.
Only after passing these checkpoints would they be allowed inside radio-shielded room to take the exam to qualify for admission to first-class universities in China. Besides the room being radio-shielded, some schools, such as at the Beijing Dongzhimen High School, would have a monitoring device capable of detecting invisible earpieces used for cheating.
Drones would hover 500 meters above the testing centers in Luoyang, Henan Province, to further intercept radio signals around the test sites. Smartwatches capable of transmitting data were banned in some provinces and cities such as Beijing and Guangzhou.
At the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, proctors would use finger vein recognition, a new-generation biometric authentication technique, to further verify the identity of students taking the exam.
Cheaters caught would be jailed for three to seven years. This early, authorities want to send the message that cheating is wrong since attempts to cheat in other national-level exams, such as the civil service test, have been uncovered recently in Jiangxi and Anhui Provinces.
