This year’s national college entrance examination, or gaokao, takes place from June 7 to June 9. The Changsha Transportation Bureau announced on June 5 that, during the exam period, examinees can take all city buses free of charge by showing their admission cards for the exam.Each examinee and their accompanying parents can take the subway free of charge after showing the admission card. Taxis posted with a green pass logo also provide free rides to examinees to show love and care for them.

During the exam period, Changsha public transport operation units arrange more than 7,575 buses along 293 routes to offer free rides to examinees while ensuring epidemic prevention and control. There are five metro lines in the city, with 1,738 trains operated a day on average. Examinees and their parents can take the subway free of charge to the exam venues. The city's 20 taxi business units are organizing more than 3,000 taxis to provide one-to-one free pickup service for examinees.

The public passenger transport industry will spare no effort to transport examinees to the exam venues safely and punctually during the exam period. It will also make use of modern scientific and technological means to offer examinees both fixed and random pickup service across the city.

Source: en.changsha.gov.cn