Millions of Chinese Students Sit Grueling College Entrance Exams

Beijing - Millions of Chinese students sat for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday, the first since the country lifted zero-Covid rules that forced classes online for months on end.

China's education ministry says nearly 13 million students, a record, are registered this year to take the 'gaokao' exams -- billed by state media as the 'world's toughest.'

In Beijing, anxious parents gathered