Top scorer in the Guangdong College Entrance Examination in 1993

On August 15, 1993, 10 candidates including Liu Zhiyan boarded the podium of Shenzhen’s first “College Entrance Examination Top Scorer Award”. Together with her, the top five winners in science subjects are all candidates from Experimental High School: Yang Shaoming, Lin Guang, Xu Chuyue, and Chen Xuan; and among the top five winners in liberal arts subjects, 4 are from Shenzhen Middle School: Wu Xuhua, Li Huilong, Zhou Yili, Lai Kang, another Lin Jun came from Yucai Middle School.

On August 15, 1993, the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the *** Youth League and the Shenzhen Youth Development Foundation *** held an award ceremony. 10 boys and girls - the top five in liberal arts and sciences in Shenzhen's college entrance examination that year - stepped onto the podium and received the first Shenzhen "College Entrance Examination Top Scorer Award", with each receiving a 2,000 yuan bonus. These 10 children suddenly became well-known "stars" in Shenzhen. Shenzhen’s “College Entrance Examination Top Scorer Award” was only awarded for that session. Due to changes in educational ideas, this high-profile event was not continued.

However, the college entrance examination is still an annual "grand event" in this city. After the college entrance examination every year, there will always be a few "top scorers" who stand out and tell everyone about their achievements in the eyes of countless envious eyes. Different learning strategies and ways to succeed. This is a "traditional play" that must be performed in this city every summer.

In less than 30 years, the number of people taking the college entrance examination has increased by more than 300 times

Shenzhen is a city of immigrants. Builders from all over the world have settled down and started businesses here, transforming it from a small fishing village to It gradually turned into a large construction site, then into a city that began to take shape, and finally developed into an international metropolis. A city grows from scratch, from small to large. This can also be seen from the college entrance examination in Shenzhen.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, with the arrival of a large number of builders, Shenzhen's population grew rapidly, and the number of college entrance examination candidates began to reach a certain scale. In 1983, a record number of more than 500 candidates took the Shenzhen College Entrance Examination. According to records from the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau, 40 candidates reached the undergraduate score line that year, and 25 candidates were admitted to key universities. Only a few years after the college entrance examination system was restored, this enrollment rate was already very impressive.

Interestingly, with the continuous arrival of entrepreneurs and builders from all over the country, the scale of Shenzhen’s college entrance examination has also expanded rapidly like economic development and urban construction. By 2009, the number of Shenzhen college entrance examination candidates had reached 24,838, equivalent to 50 times that of 1983. Even more astonishing is the growth in the number of students entering higher education. In 2008, 13,164 candidates reached the undergraduate score line in Shenzhen, equivalent to 329 times the number in 1983; 4,048 candidates were admitted to key universities, equivalent to 162 times the number in 1983. The scale of Shenzhen’s college entrance examination is growing almost faster than Shenzhen’s economic construction and urban development.

The top scorer in the college entrance examination was once a "star" in the city

Since the college entrance examination system was restored in 1978, a word has entered the lives of Chinese people: "the top scorer in the college entrance examination". China's so-called "college entrance examination top scorers" are usually counted based on provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions. If we follow this standard, then from the founding of Shenzhen until the entire 1980s, Shenzhen did not produce a true "college entrance examination top scorer."

This "regret" was not broken until the early 1990s. Li Haiyan, who graduated from Shenzhen Middle School in 1991, won the first place in the province's science subjects with a standard comprehensive score of 900 in the college entrance examination that year. The Shenzhen media at the time called him the first real student in Shenzhen's history. The "top scorer" in the college entrance examination.

According to the records of Shenzhen Middle School, Li Haiyan moved to Shenzhen with his parents from Xi'an, Shaanxi when he was in junior high school. Since I had a better foundation for studying in my hometown, my academic performance soon ranked among the best. After entering high school, he studied science and set his sights on Tsinghua University, the top university in science and engineering in the country. The characteristic of this student is that he pays attention to daily accumulation. During class, he pays special attention to the teacher's explanations. Before each exam, he arranges review time reasonably and prioritizes. After the college entrance examination that year, many classmates said to him: "We all lost weight due to exhaustion in the college entrance examination, why did you gain weight instead?" Li Haiyan joked that he spread all the hard work of his senior year into three years of high school. In August of that year, Li Haiyan was admitted to Tsinghua University. He graduated five years later and went to the United States to study and develop.

In 1993, in order to encourage high school graduates in Shenzhen to achieve excellent results in the college entrance examination, the Municipal Youth League Committee and the Municipal Youth Development Foundation established the "College Entrance Examination Top Scorer Award" to reward the top five in arts and sciences in the college entrance examination that year.

The Shenzhen candidates that year lived up to their expectations. Liu Zhiyan, a girl who graduated from the high school department of Shenzhen Experimental School, won the first place in science in the province with a standard comprehensive score of 900 points. That year, Liu Zhiyan was only 16 years old, two or three years younger than the average high school graduate.

Why is this? Liu Zhiyan's class teacher at that time was Feng Jinhua, the current director of the junior high school of the experimental school. In her memory, when Liu Zhiyan was two or three years old, her parents began to focus on enlightenment education and cultivate her good learning interests and study habits; from early childhood At first, she had a wide range of interests and insisted on practicing calligraphy and writing diaries every day. When she was 6 years old, she signed up for school and jumped into the second grade as soon as she entered the school. One month before the end of the third grade semester, the school suggested that she skip another grade; Under the guidance of his parents, Liu Zhiyan completed fourth grade Chinese and mathematics in one month, took the fourth grade final exam, and jumped into fifth grade. In early 1988, Liu Zhiyan moved to Shenzhen with his parents and was admitted to the Experimental High School in 1990. Due to his excellent academic performance, the school regarded Liu Zhiyan as a key training target. Feng Jinhua remembers that one time, Liu Zhiyan was late for class. Not only was she severely criticized, but she was also not given an "excellent" rating in the moral education assessment section of the final student handbook, which shows how strict the requirements were.

On August 15, 1993, 10 candidates including Liu Zhiyan boarded the podium of Shenzhen’s first “College Entrance Examination Top Prize”. Together with her, the top five winners in science subjects are all candidates from Experimental High School: Yang Shaoming, Lin Guang, Xu Chuyue, and Chen Xuan; and among the top five winners in liberal arts subjects, 4 are from Shenzhen Middle School: Wu Xuhua, Li Huilong, Zhou Yili, Lai Kang, another Lin Jun came from Yucai Middle School.

As the first and only winners of Shenzhen’s “College Entrance Examination Top Prize”, they have been recorded in history.

Number one scholar, a controversial topic

In the years after 1993, although Shenzhen did not have the province’s top scorer in the college entrance examination every year, there would be several results at the end of the college entrance examination every year. Outstanding candidates become the targets of many media. The candidates with the highest scores in liberal arts and science subjects in the city, and even the candidates with the highest scores in a single subject are also called "top scorers" and grab the headlines of the city's media. However, just as the enthusiasm for the top scorer in the college entrance examination remains high in Shenzhen, voices from education authorities at all levels and some experts against the hype of the top scorer in the college entrance examination also emerge from time to time. In view of this, the awarding of Shenzhen’s “College Entrance Examination Top Scholar Award” has not been continued. In 1997, the head of the National Education Commission gave a speech asking all localities not to publicize or heavily reward the "top scorers" in the college entrance examination, so as to dilute the competition for further education and jointly create a social environment conducive to the healthy growth of young people and the implementation of quality education. Therefore, when Zhang Kai from Shenzhen Middle School ranked first in science in Guangdong Province in 1998, and Xie Bo from Shenzhen Foreign Languages ??School ranked first in science in Guangdong Province in 2004, although there were moderate reports, Liu Zhiyan, Li Haiyan and others were no longer there. The "city star" feeling of the old "number one". In 2010, relevant parties in Guangdong Province decided not to publish the overall score and individual subject rankings of the college entrance examination. The officially announced “No. 1 Scholar” has since passed into history.

However, the controversy about the top scorer in the college entrance examination will not stop. Is the No. 1 pick “high score but low energy”? Judging from the subsequent development of some "top picks" in Shenzhen, it seems that this may not be the case. Li Haiyan, the top scorer in science in Guangdong Province in 1991, went to the United States to study after graduating from Tsinghua University and is now engaged in science and technology work in the United States; Liu Zhiyan, the top scorer in science in the province in 1993, is now an engineer at Google in the United States; Yang Shaoming, who won the top scorer in the college entrance examination in the same year, Now I run a technology company in Shanghai...; Does being the number one scholar mean studying hard? It seems that this is not necessarily the case. In 2004, Xie Bo, the province's science champion, loved traveling very much. He once said that his biggest dream is to travel around the world with a camera...

Maybe as long as the college entrance examination system exists, publicity that the top scorer is The question of pros and cons will never be answered. But for Shenzhen students, one thing is certain: in 2009, 53% of the 24,838 Shenzhen candidates who took the college entrance examination were admitted to undergraduate colleges, and the total admission rate reached 92%, which is higher than when the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone was established. Improved by more than 10 times. Compared with the past, students in Shenzhen, whether they are top scorers or not, have a broader and broader future.

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