The main reason for the decrease in the number of applicants this year is that Hubei province has standardized the enrollment behavior of higher vocational colleges, which has led to a decrease in the number of candidates applying for higher vocational colleges. This year, among the applicants for the college entrance examination, there are 142,564 applicants for liberal arts, 287,730 applicants for science and engineering, 38,403 applicants for art, and 11,384 applicants for physical education. The number of applicants for the unified examination of higher vocational colleges is 23,225, while last year the number of applicants for higher vocational colleges reached 82,000.