With the approval of the Sichuan Provincial People’s Government in March 2006, the Sichuan Provincial Education Examination Institute was established through the merger of the former provincial enrollment office and the provincial self-study examination office. It is the administrative organ of the Provincial Higher Education Enrollment and Examination Committee, an public institution under the administration of the Department of Education with administrative functions, specifically responsible for the recruitment of ordinary colleges and universities, adult colleges and universities, secondary vocational schools, postgraduate studies, academic education, non-academic education self-examination and test proposition management work related to college entrance examination and self-study examination etc.