Individual enrollment is a mechanism for the Ministry of Education to further improve the higher vocational education system with China characteristics and the diversified selection and admission of higher education. In order to implement the spirit of the document "Opinions of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance on Implementing the Construction Plan of National Model Higher Vocational Colleges to Accelerate the Reform and Development of Higher Vocational Education" (J.G. [2006]14), actively explore and guide high school graduates and secondary vocational graduates to be rationally diverted to high-quality higher vocational colleges, improve the quality of students in higher vocational education, decide on organizing propositions, examinations and marking papers in higher vocational colleges, delimit the minimum admission control score line, and determine the admission list.
This form of enrollment is called "individual enrollment" in higher vocational colleges, and candidates who take the individual enrollment examination enjoy the same treatment as those who take the college entrance examination. The independent enrollment of higher vocational colleges in China began in 2007, and the subject unit of the proposition gradually expanded from national demonstration vocational colleges to national backbone vocational colleges, provincial demonstration vocational colleges and vocational colleges in the national comprehensive reform experimental zone of higher vocational education.