The National College Student English Competition is the only competition in China organized by the Steering Committee of Foreign Language Teaching in Colleges and Universities and the Foreign Language Teaching Research Association of Colleges and Universities to test the comprehensive English ability of college students. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The competition aims to cooperate with the Ministry of Education's evaluation of higher education teaching level, implement the spirit of the Ministry of Education's reform of college English teaching and examination, stimulate students' interest in learning English, promote the overall improvement of college students' English proficiency, and select and reward college students with excellent academic performance in college English.

This presentation is official, even in full agreement with what was said twenty years ago. But the impact of the turbulent past 20 years on China is far from as simple as it seems. The changes in the National College Student English Contest are enough to peek into a lot of deep things.

The competition was originally co-sponsored by the Steering Committee for Foreign Language Teaching in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education and the Foreign Language Teaching Research Association of Colleges and Universities, and organized by the English Tutoring Newspaper and the Examination and Evaluation Magazine of Tianren Newspaper Group.

However, after 2018, the state began to deliberately suppress the domestic foreign language education industry through various means. A large number of English education institutions that were originally leading the industry have transformed and no longer accept ordinary English training business. Many smaller English educational institutions have all slipped into the abyss of bankruptcy, and the entire foreign language education industry has begun to enter an ice age.

Originally, the organizers of the National College Student English Contest have given up, and the competition has become an event unilaterally controlled by the state.

At present, the competition still has established a National College Student English Competition Organizing Committee, which is composed of the Steering Committee of Foreign Language Teaching in Colleges and Universities, the main leading members and senior experts of the Foreign Language Teaching Research Association of Colleges and Universities, and the presidents of the Foreign Language Teaching Research Associations of universities in various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government).

However, that is still the official statement, and the main members of the organizing committee of the competition are actually purely from the Steering Committee of Foreign Language Teaching in Colleges and Universities and the Research Association of Foreign Language Teaching in Colleges and Universities.

Universities across the country are not so enthusiastic about English education, and now the state is vigorously supporting university research projects and Chinese language and history research projects. Once obvious achievements have been made in teaching and research in these two directions, the state will directly provide grants and other policy support.

At present, the foreign language teaching research associations of various universities have basically become cold benches. In the National College Student English Competition, the university's foreign language teaching research group is just a formality.

Even the Steering Committee for Foreign Language Teaching in Colleges and Universities and the Research Association for Foreign Language Teaching in Colleges and Universities, which are directly under the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, are in fact in fact in a much worse position than before. Being in officialdom, they can more clearly feel the will of the highest echelons of the country. A large number of members have withdrawn from the membership and moved on to other areas.

Before 2020, the English competition for college students was divided into five categories: A, B, C, D, and E, and graduate students and students of all grades in colleges and universities across the country could voluntarily sign up for the competition.

Category A exams are available for postgraduate students; Category B test is suitable for English majors and junior college students; Category C exams are available for non-English major undergraduates; Category D exams are for undergraduates in physical education and arts, and non-English majors and higher vocational college students, and Category E exams are for students of radio and television universities and other types of adult higher education students.

After 2020, the state issued the "2020 National College Student English Competition (NECCS) Guidelines", which redivided the competition into two categories: AB. Category A exams are for graduate students majoring in English, Category B exams are for undergraduate students majoring in English, and students from other majors with special expertise can also take them.

The 2020 National College Student English Contest has continued to this day, and the National College Student English Competition has basically changed from an event for major colleges and universities across the country to an event for college English majors.

In terms of the time and process of the competition, the National College Student English Competition has also changed.

Prior to 2020, the preliminary round was scheduled to be held simultaneously across the country from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in mid-April (the second Sunday of April) every year. The preliminary round consists of two parts: written answer and listening part. The listening in the preliminary round takes the form of a recording of the playback. The final written test (including listening) is scheduled to be held simultaneously across the country from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in mid-May (the second Sunday of May) every year.

After 2020, the number of participants was significantly reduced due to reforms. The start date of the National College English Contest is scheduled for July 14, and the competition lasts for seven days. The first four days are the preliminary rounds, and the last three days are the finals. The venue of the competition was uniformly booked in Guangzhou, for which the state specially built the National College Student English Competition Center in Guangzhou to be responsible for the examination.

Originally, there were two ways to participate in the finals, and any one could be chosen: the first was to take only the written test (including listening), and the second was to take the written test (including listening) and the oral test. The final questions, oral test plans and topics will be uniformly ordered by the National Competition Organizing Committee. The provincial competition organizing committee chooses whether to participate in the oral examination uniformly, and decides the location, time, form and other specific matters of the oral examination.

However, after the reform, the final method has changed, and all participants must take a written test (including listening) and an oral test. The full score of the competition test is 200 points, of which the written test score is 150 points (including listening) and the oral test score is 50 points.

To sum up, after the country's vigorous reform, the National College Student English Competition has undergone great changes. The competition is more difficult and more professional.

In short, after 2020, the national English education industry has entered an ice age. After 2030, the national English education industry has basically entered the abyss of destruction.

Some people must wonder why China, which attaches more importance to English education than Britain and the United States, has dealt a heavy blow to the status of English in China in a short period of time. In China, where English is basically the "mother tongue", why is English declining so rapidly?

Vigorously developing traditional culture and beginning to clear up the ideological and belief crisis brought about by the reform and opening up is one of the reasons. The more important reason is the development of science and technology, the development of brainwave technology.

In 2020, the first universal brainwave language recognizer was released in Shanghai. The R&D company of the universal brainwave language recognizer is a small company called Shanghai Starlight Brainwave Science and Technology Research Institute, which was established in 2015 with a registered capital of only 500,000 yuan. Of course, this company is not only called this one, its other name is the Starlight Brainwave Research Base, codenamed 0015.

The universal brainwave language recognizer is researched on the basis of the brainwave language text input. It can analyze and transcode the brainwave signals generated by the human language center, translate them into various languages, and output them in the form of sound.

The General Brainwave Language Recognizer is not the main product of the 0015 Starlight Brainwave Research Base, which mainly researches neurophysical connection and brainwave analysis technology, which are mainly used for the user's control of nano-biochemical power armor, mecha and nano-metal robots.

The Universal Brainwave Speech Reader is only a castrated version of the most basic brainwave consciousness reader, which can read all kinds of brainwave signals emitted by the brain, and the representative application is the control of heavy armed robots and nano-metal weapons.

Because the general-purpose language brainwave recognizer directly reads the brainwave signals generated by the language center, it can basically translate any language that has been parsed without error. It can be said that the communication between people is no longer barrier-free.

Of course, the universal language brainwave recognizer is only suitable for direct communication between people, and long-distance communication can also be transmitted by converting brainwaves into electrical signals. However, it is unable to translate written and audio materials, which is an important reason why English education still exists.

However, the state has required that electronic audio publications in foreign languages published and circulated after 2030 must be accompanied by a brainwave language information card. The brainwave language information card is made by professionals who read aloud and record the brainwave signal and record it digitally, and the user only needs to insert the brainwave language information card into the universal language brainwave recognizer to read the audio information.

On top of that, the universal brainwave recognizer is not expensive, selling for only 500 RMB. Under the manipulation of the state, the low price quickly destroyed the cornerstone of foreign language education.