Yu Minhong, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Xindongfang Education and Technology Group, said that English education in China has received too much emphasis, cnr.cn reported.

Yu said that rural students received a poor education in English but had to face the same English test in university entrance exams. In consequence, many rural students could not get into better universities because they got lower marks in the exams. Yu suggested that English marks in the university entrance exams should be decreased from 150 to 100, or even 80, in order to provide more equitable conditions for rural students.