Work Scheme for Re-examination and Admission of Doctoral Candidates in 2021 in School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

According to the spirit of the relevant documents and notices of the Ministry of Education, in combination with the requirements on epidemic prevention and control and the actual conditions of admission of CUG, in order to do a good job in admission of doctoral candidates in this school in 2021, this scheme is formulated and announced as follows:

I. Basic requirements on re-examination

1. Uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China, have good moral character, abide by laws and regulations, and meet the requirements of physical examination prescribed by the state.

2. Adhere to the principle of “admission according to need, enrolling only those who are outstanding, less but better”, and adhere to the principles of equity, justice and publicity.

3. On the basis of comprehensive examination, stress the assessment of professional quality, scientific research ability, practical ability, innovative spirit and comprehensive quality. Before the examination, the examinee shall sign a letter of commitment on good faith. The assessment of ideological and political quality and moral character is one of the important assessment contents, and those who fail will not be admitted.

4. Bachelor-to-doctorate candidates have taken the re-examination at the stage of re-examination for the recommended exam-free candidates, so it is not required to take this re-examination; the MD-PhD based candidate, the candidate for doctor’s degree in advance and the “application-assessment” candidate with examination qualification passing the qualification examination will directly take the reexamination. The MD-PhD based candidate and the candidate for doctor’s degree in advance will only take comprehensive interview.

5. Candidates of the high-level backbone talents program for ethnic minorities should take part in the English examination organized by CUG. The specific time and place are subject to the notice of the postgraduate admission website of CUG.

II. Admission program

III. Re-examination arrangement

(I) Re-examination form

Offline on-site re-examination.

(II) Qualification examination

1. List of qualification examination materials

(1) Second-generation ID card;

(2) Original of master’s graduation certificate and master’s degree certificate (fresh graduate shall provide the online student status verification report of the Ministry of Education, and those who cannot obtain the graduation certificate and degree certificate before entrance will be disqualified. Foreign degree holders shall provide foreign degree authentication certificates issued by Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange of the Ministry of Education);

(3) Original of undergraduate graduation certificate and degree certificate;

(4) Original of certificate for foreign language proficiency;

(5) Original of re-examination notice (downloaded from doctoral admission system);

(6) Those who do not meet the requirements for entering for the exam will not pass the qualification examination. All qualification materials must be original. Those who fail the qualification examination will not be re-examined.

2. Time and place of qualification examination

Time: 8:30-9:30 am, April 28

Place: A212, School of Public Administration

(III) Re-examination payment

According to the pricing document, the re-examination fee is RMB 100 Yuan/person. Payment platform website: http://pay.cug.edu.cn/xysf/ (Account number is ID card number, and the password is the last six digits of ID card).

(IV) Re-examination content

1. Background assessment: An assessment team composed of 3 experts is set up to conduct the comprehensive and independent assessment and scoring according to the application materials submitted by candidates. Examine the examinee’s ability to comprehensively apply the learned knowledge, scientific research and innovation ability, the understanding of the frontier fields and the latest research trends of the subject, and evaluate the examinee's basic quality, scientific research potential and innovation ability, give background evaluation results and give written evaluation opinions. Those who fail to pass the background assessment are not allowed to enter the next step, and their score adopts the centesimal integer.

2. Examination of disciplines and specialties: the examination form is written examination of basic theoretical knowledge of specialties. The examination scores of disciplines and specialties are percentile integers.

3. Comprehensive interview: including foreign language proficiency assessment (accounting for 20%) and comprehensive quality assessment (80%). On-site defense shall be adopted, and the time shall not be less than 20 minutes. Comprehensive interview result will be in centesimal system (the result shall be rounded up to 2 decimal places), and those who fail will not be accepted.

(1) Foreign language proficiency assessment: it is to assess the candidate’ foreign language application ability, mainly including foreign language writing, literature reading and translation ability. It will be carried out in form of interview. Foreign language proficiency test score is in centesimal system.

(2) Comprehensive quality assessment: the professional assessment group will assesses the subject background, professional accomplishments, academic level, scientific research ability and innovation potential of candidates in an all-round way. Comprehensive quality assessment score is in centesimal system.

(V) Time and place of reexamination

1. Written examination time: 10:00-12:00 am, April 28

Written examination place: Room 406, Comprehensive Building in North Quarter

Subjects for written examination: land economics (for land resources management), public economics (for public policy and administration), education economy and management (for education economy and management)

2. Comprehensive interview time: the afternoon of April 28 to April 29

(IV) Total score of re-examination

Total score of candidates for application-assessment = background assessment*10% + discipline assessment*20% + comprehensive interview*70%. The total score is 100 points, accurate to two decimal places.

Total score of MD-PhD based candidates = comprehensive interview *100%. The total score is 100 points, accurate to two decimal places.

IV. Admission rules

1. The MD-PhD based candidates and the candidates for advanced doctorate will be admitted after passing the reexamination. “Application-assessment” candidates for ordinary plan (including the special plan for ideological and political backbone) will be admitted according to the total score of reexamination combined with tutor enrollment plan from high score to low score. Candidates who pass the re-examination of the high-level talents program for the backbone of ethnic minorities are determined by CUG whether they are admitted or not.

2. In case of one of the following circumstances, the candidate will not be admitted or disqualified:

① Unqualified in ideological and political quality and moral quality examination.

② Unqualified in background assessment.

③ Unqualified in comprehensive interview.

④Failing to attend the re-examination or unqualified in the re-examination (if the total score is lower than 60, it is unqualified).

⑤ Not publicized in the proposed admission list.

⑥ Failing to submit the targeted employment agreement on time as a targeted employment candidate; failing to transfer the archives on time as a non-targeted candidate.

⑦ Failing to submit degree certificate or graduation certificate and other required materials on time.

⑧ Providing false information.

3. The archives of the previous students who intend to be admitted as non-targeted candidates shall be transferred to this School before June 20, and fresh graduates can transfer the archives after graduation; students who are pre-assigned to the specific posts such as job-directed students and in-service students as the backbone of the national minority do not need to transfer the archives. If you fail to go through the proposed admission procedures within the time limit, the candidates will bear the consequences.

4. After publicity for 10 working days without objection, this School will submit the proposed admission list to Graduate School according to the enrollment plan issued. All proposed admission lists must be reported to the Ministry of Education for examination and approval before they are officially accepted.

V. Others

1. Candidates are requested to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control according to territorial requirements. Candidates must monitor their own body temperature before the exam. Only when their body temperature is normal (lower than 37.3°) and they hold the green code of “health code” of each province and city can they participate in the second interview. Candidates enter the campus with their ID cards, original re-examination notice, "health code" green code and normal temperature monitoring. All candidates bring their own disposable medical masks. In addition to the removal of the mask in the identity confirmation process, it should be worn throughout the whole process for personal protection.

2. Contact information

Mailing address: A212, Teaching Affairs Office of School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), No. 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan City, Hubei Province  (Postcode: 430074)

Tel: 027-67883229 Email: yjs17@cug.edu.cn

3. Appeal channels

Graduate School: 027-67885153; yzb@cug.edu.cn.

Supervision Division: 027-67884345; jwbgs@cug.edu.cn.

School of Public Administration

Apr. 21, 2021

(Edited and translated from the Chinese version)