Chapter 56: Tasks in College Entrance Examination Paper Marking

The days passed one by one, and soon it was New Year's Day, and the Gregorian calendar entered the year 1978.

Of course, for people today, New Year's Day is not a holiday at all and there is no holiday.

When Li Changhe was reborn last year, he discovered that there were no holidays for New Year's Day, let alone the Spring Festival.

More than ten years ago, the decision was made not to have a Spring Festival holiday. It was said that it was because someone shouted "G the fate of the Spring Festival".

Then a group of smart people started writing letters frantically suggesting that the spring break holiday be canceled, and it was later canceled.

Not only that, activities such as setting off firecrackers, greeting the New Year, dragon and lion dances, and eating and drinking are all prohibited. The only one thing retained is posting Spring Festival couplets.

He remembered that when he went to the countryside, the Spring Festival couplets posted by every household almost all had the same slogans, and this one was probably the most popular one.

"The fight doesn't stop on the 30th, but continues on the 1st"

At that time, Li Changhe's eyes were filled with tears as he ate the bitter past meal.

He was still a patient at that time!
But there are some differences. At least when I walk on the street, the spirits of the people along the way are better.

Li Changhe guessed that it was most likely because their salaries had increased.

In the second half of 77, the country launched a wave of wage increases across the country. Although only percent of people received a raise, this proportion was not low.

Students like Zhu Lin also saw their salaries increase. Because of their admission reasons and the school system, they, the workers, peasants and soldiers, could not be compared with the regular college students of the past.

In the past, the starting salary for regular college graduates was 46 yuan, but for workers, peasants and soldiers like them, the starting salary in the sixth category of areas after graduation was only 38 yuan.

But after this wave of salary increases, the starting salary for these graduates was adjusted to 43 yuan, an increase of 5 yuan.

Li Changhe's family also benefited.

In addition to salary increases, the state has also approved a document to resume technical title evaluation, allowing for re-evaluation.

This also means that Lao Li, this extremely special fourth-level associate professor, will most likely be promoted to a full-time position in 78.

After all, normal level 4 professors are full professors, and the fact that he is only a level 4 associate professor is due to special reasons of the times.

Although the salary has not changed, it sounds better to say it out loud, at least I'm a real professor now.

If Li Changhe goes up one step further, I guess there won’t be much hope for Old Li, unless he can survive.

Apart from anything else, the first and second level professors are the founders of various disciplines. For example, the first level professors were only evaluated once in 56, and those who were evaluated were all masters.

Mr. Li in their family is estimated to be able to survive to level three at best before retirement.

During this period, in addition to writing articles, Li Changhe also had another thing to do, which was to exchange tickets in a rush.

Exchange the tickets for supplies he needs for his wedding, such as wedding candy, peanuts, etc.

Fortunately, Li Changhe had national food coupons in his hands, and recently he received a wave of rewards from readers. Although not as much as the first time, even the smallest amount is still meat.

Li Changhe was using national food coupons to exchange for these material coupons.

However, this time the change was not as smooth as Li Changhe had imagined. After all, it was approaching the Spring Festival, and there were rumors that the standards would be relaxed this year.

Beijing department stores have already started preparing for the New Year with all kinds of supplies.

For ordinary people, there is not much difference between national food coupons and local food coupons. On the contrary, during this New Year, they can take this opportunity to have a good meal, and they can also arrange for melon seeds, candies, etc.

Therefore, not many people are willing to exchange with Li Changhe.

Li Changhe was not in a hurry. Since there was something to exchange, he would exchange it. After the exchange, he would go directly to the department store or supply and marketing cooperative to buy supplies and take them home.

Little by little, you can always stockpile enough.

When he returned home in the evening, Li Changhe looked at the time and turned on the TV.

"You still want to watch TV so late at night?"

Shen Yuxiu looked at Li Changhe's actions and asked him curiously.

"I heard there's a new show tonight called 'News Broadcast'. I want to see what it's like."

Li Changhe explained to Shen Yuxiu with a smile.

Then Shen Yuxiu brought the food over, and the three of them started watching the "News Broadcast" while eating.

The "News Network" on January 1978, 1 was the first episode of the "News Network" that was broadcast continuously for decades. It was the first news broadcast, so Li Changhe certainly had to watch this historic moment.

However, this time the news broadcast was not broadcast by CCTV, but by Beijing Television.

Only the image of the female host can be displayed on the screen, but the voices belong to two people, the man is Zhao Zhongxiang.

It's true that you only hear the voice but never see the person.

After watching for a while, Li Changhe felt a little bored. The news at that time made him feel a little embarrassed.

Instead, Li Lishan sat there, watching with great interest.

The current news broadcast is not as long as the half-hour it will be in the future, but only twenty minutes.

After watching it, I had just finished my meal and cleared the table.

Li Changhe then returned to his room, turned on the desk lamp, and prepared to write another article.

In order to review, he basically wrote nothing else in the first two months except the manuscript for the People's Literature Publishing House.

Now that the college entrance examination is over, Li Changhe plans to continue writing and submit his works to Yenching Literature and Art and Yanhe.

After all, you have already established your pen name, it would be a waste if you don't submit your work.

When the educated youth return to the city next year and national policies are further relaxed, this lucrative industry will take off.

Therefore, we should write more now while there are few people in the industry and there is no internal competition.

While Li Changhe was typing all night, dozens of teachers in a school arranged by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission were also working day and night.

This is the examiner for this year's college entrance examination.

Compared with many other regions, one advantage of Beijing is that there are many people with higher education, and there are enough people to mark the papers.

But even so, this is still a difficult problem for them.

This is the first time that the country has restored the college entrance examination. Of course, the examination must be fair and just and we cannot be careless.

But time is relatively tight, because this is an accelerated college entrance examination, and the enrollment work must be completed before the start of the school season after the Spring Festival.

This is a huge challenge for the examiners.

Fortunately, after several days of hard work, most of the test papers have been reviewed.

Teachers in the science group actually have an easier job, because science mainly involves mathematics, physics and chemistry, and there are ready-made answers, so they just have to grade them.

On the other hand, in the humanities, many questions require comprehension, and grading requires both subjective judgment and objective responses.

Among them, the Chinese language group is even more difficult.

But at this moment, several men in Zhongshan suits walked in.

"Dear examiners, let's add a temporary task now."

"The People's Daily plans to select an outstanding essay from this year's examination papers of our Beijing candidates and publish it to show it to the people of the whole country."

"If you come across any well-written essays, please report them and we will give them to the editors of the People's Daily for review."

As soon as the person in charge of marking the Chinese language papers finished speaking, someone raised his hand.

"Director Zhao, I happen to have an essay here that I think is very well written. How about letting the editor of the People's Daily take a look at it first?"

A marking teacher raised his hand and said at this time.

The editors looked at each other and nodded.

It is true that it is better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early.

"Okay, bring it here."

Seeing several editors nodded in agreement, Director Zhao also nodded, and then a Chinese test paper was passed to them.

Several editors took a look and saw the candidate's name on the paper: Li Changhe.

Afterwards, several people began to read it carefully.

(End of this chapter)