China's national college entrance exam postponed for one month

Graduating students attend a class at Hohhot No 6 Middle School in Hohhot, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, March 30, 2020. Students in their final year of senior and junior high schools in Inner Mongolia returned to school and embraced their new spring semester on Monday. [Photo/Xinhua] 

BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) -- China's national college entrance exam, also known as Gaokao, will be postponed by a month to July 7 and 8 due to the novel coronavirus disease epidemic, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said Tuesday.

Hubei Province, which was hit hard by the virus, and Beijing can put forward their proposals on the exam dates for their regions and publish the schedule after consulting and gaining approval from the MOE, according to an MOE statement.