(Yicai Global) July 7 -- About 50,000 high school students in Shanghai are taking the gaokao, or national college entrance examination, from today. The three-day test was postponed by a month due to the city’s Covid-19 outbreak.

Students enter the exam center at Nanyang Model Middle School in Shanghai’s Xuhui district.

A student scans a code at an exam venue, as required by Covid-19 restrictions.

Teachers wearing T-shirts with encouraging messages cheer up students outside a test center.

A student waves to her parents before heading into the exam.

Editor: Peter Thomas