ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the new admissions policies as they bear upon the different levels of the educational system. The goal of admissions policies in China is therefore to admit students who, for the first time, are both fully "red" and fully "expert." The fall of the Gang of Four has done nothing to effect changes in admissions at the lowest levels of schools in China. Admission to nurseries, kindergartens, and primary schools remains limited only by the availability of facilities. Virtually the only safeguards in the otherwise subjective selection formula are the quotas used to guarantee a modicum of ethnic and geographic balance and the percentage of students who are still required to work for two years after middle school before college. Key schools are usually financed in part at least by the national, provincial, or local government.
