Beijing:
Police in China have arrested two students and seized radio signal equipment being used by them to cheat in the national entrance exam in which over nine million students are appearing.
Radio signals have been intercepted from exam rooms where students were appearing in national college entrance exam in north China's Shanxi Province, the provincial radio management authority said today.
According to a spokesman for the radio bureau, it captured 10 wireless signals from exam rooms in Jincheng and Linfen cities on the first day of China's national exam yesterday.
Shanxi's radio management bureau blocked the wireless communications from the exam rooms and traced two of the signals to help police catch two suspects and seize three pieces of radio apparatus that they are suspected of using for the exam cheating.
Approximately 9.12 million students are appearing in the exam to vie for access to the country's universities and colleges in 3.10 lakh exam rooms at 7,300 venues nationwide.
The exam called Gaokao in Chinese is known as the "single-log bridge" to a Chinese university and many examinees view it as a "life-or-death" moment and a prerequisite to securing a good job after graduation.
To ensure fair play in the crucial test, Chinese authorities have tightened up the fight against cheating and test fraud.
The two-day exam started yesterday.
The radio bureau has been involved in the fight against exam cheating since last year's national exam, when it caught 21 people cheating, some using voice sending communications, others uploading numbers or graphic messages to mobile gadgets secretly taken by students into exam rooms.