10+ million students in China take the Gaokao every year - the “centralized, hierarchical tournament.” One score can shape education, jobs, mobility – and even identity.
Watch our recent
#CCA webinar with Ruixue Jia & Hongbin Li:
youtu.be/bKPorf94aoA?si=Gyaf… 
The Highest Exam: How China's Gaokao Shapes a Nation
November 11, 2025 -- In this program by the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis (CCA), CCA welcomes Ruixue Jia, professor of Economics at the University of California San Diego; and Hongbin Li, professor of Economics at Stanford Un...
