Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic，Zhejiang University has taken targeted measures for pandemic prevention and reopening campus. In addition to enhancing the campus security defense, Zhejiang University has given full play to the mode of "Internet + education" and carried out the education and teaching works for postgraduate students.

Zhejiang University has deeply realized that postgraduate entrance examination is a vital way for the country to select high-level talents. To minimize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zhejiang University has held special meetings for many times to analyze the current situation. The leading group of graduate enrollment work and the Graduate School have repeatedly weighed, carefully designed, and finally decided to mainly adopt the mode of remote examination for postgraduate enrollment. A specific plan was formulated by the Graduate School and has been implemented after being reviewed and approved by the university affairs meeting, the Standing Committee of University  Party Committee and the higher competent authority.

Departments and divisions have been collaborating to ensure the effect. The Information Technology Center checked the network security and timely provided necessary technology and network support. ZJU began to build a wide spectrum of smart classrooms, equipped with new functions such as audio recognition and simultaneous interpreting. Thanks to its smart campus, a total of 300 smart classrooms have been quickly put in place for teachers to shoot video courses or live stream their classes this year. In addition, the Information Technology Center updated the network of more than 500 classrooms to ensure the work. The Department of General Affairs disinfected the multimedia rooms and ensured electricity supply. Due to the demand of remote examination, the module for the examination of postgraduate based on ZJU Ding was developed and deployed in less than 10 days. As a postgraduate education management department, the Graduate School timely released "the Arrangements for the Examination and Admission Work for the 2020 Postgraduate Enrollment” , “the Notice for Remote Interview Candidates” and the announcements of the examination plan for each college and department, providing thoughtful and timely consulting, so as to enable the candidates better understand the process, the admission requirements, required equipment, environment and material requirements for the examination and get prepared. The Graduate School compiled the "Remote Examination Operation Guide" and "Basic Specification of Examination Group" and operation instructions, and organized two remote training for the examination staffs on April 30^th and May 4^th successively. The number of participants in the training, including department leaders, graduate education management personnel and secretaries of examination group exceeded 1,500 person-time.

To ensure secured, fair and scientific examination for the postgraduate candidates, the Graduate School has formulated a detailed remote examination scheme and a series of guarantee measures. The colleges and departments took active actions to ensure the work, made detailed postgraduate examinations plans, organized and conducted a series of simulations and rehearsals, involving platform operations, examination procedures and network fault resolution. More than 700 secretaries have been arranged and more than 260 devices have been equipped with the examination teams.

Since May 6^th , the University leaders in charge of graduate education, the leaders of the Graduate School and the leaders of the colleges and departments respectively led the team to participate in the simulation exercises on site at different campuses, in order to solve the existing problems and improve the work plan.

ZJU started the remote examination for the 2020 postgraduate enrollment on May 8^th at the Department of Physics. According to the research fields, the Department of Physics selected 25 professors to form 5 examination groups, all of which were headed by the discipline leader and vice headed by the secretary of the teaching and administrative Party branch. The proportion of high-level talents in the expert group has reached 90%, which shows that the Department of Physics and the tutors attached great importance to the postgraduate examination work.

Nearly 7000 candidates have been already taken part in the postgraduate examination during May 8^th -19^th and about 5000 will be admitted.