Recently, the website of the National Civil Service Bureau announced that the registration of civil servants for the 2023 annual examination of central authorities and their directly affiliated institutions will start on October 25, and the written examination will be held from December 3 to 4. The "National Examination", which has attracted the attention of many examinees, is about to usher in the registration season. In recent years, what are the characteristics of the recruitment and registration of the National Examination? What are the reasons for the "national examination craze"? The registration of the national examination is hot. The recruitment of civil servants of the central authorities and their direct subordinate institutions is also known as the "national examination". In recent years, with the increase of the number of applicants, the public attention of the "national examination" is high. In 1994, the former Ministry of Personnel formally established the civil service examination and recruitment system, and organized the first central government administrative organ civil service recruitment and recruitment examination. According to the statistics of some media, the national examination provided 490 places for more than 30 state organs that year, and 4400 people finally applied for the examination, which is equivalent to nine people competing for a position. According to the recruitment data in the past 10 years, the scale of recruitment for the national examination has fluctuated. For example, 20839 people were recruited from 12901 positions of more than 140 central authorities and their directly affiliated institutions and units managed by referring to the Civil Servant Law in 2013. By 2016, the number of positions recruited had increased to more than 15000, with a total of 27800 people. The 2022 national examination, which was held in November last year in written form, was attended by 75 departments and 23 institutions directly under the Central Government, and a total of 31200 people were recruited. From the number of applicants, the "heat" of the national examination is also supported by sufficient data. Since 2009, the number of applicants for the national examination has exceeded one million for 14 consecutive years. Last year, the number of applicants for the national examination exceeded two million for the first time. In the past two years, the number of people actually taking part in the national examination has exceeded one million. Qian Yuying, a professor from the School of Politics and Public Administration of Suzhou University, told chinanews. com about the popularity of the national examination. On the one hand, it is because of the broad prospects for the development of civil servants; on the other hand, it is because the civil service examination has strong credibility and is characterized by institutionalization and standardization, and enough outstanding people can stand out in the civil service examination. The degree of competition in the examination is the national examination every year, and some posts with high number of applicants receive media attention. As early as 10 years ago, there was a competition for a position close to "one in a million" in the 2013 national examination registration, which was "a member of the business department of Chongqing Hechuan Investigation Team of the National Bureau of Statistics". In the 2022 national examination, there are also posts that attract candidates to register in droves at the registration stage. The post of "first level chief staff member and below" in the Post Administration of Ali Prefecture, Tibet, has attracted many candidates to apply for the examination since the beginning of registration. As of the closing of the registration channel, the enrollment ratio has been close to "one out of 20000". "Every year, these popular positions are accidental, but they also have some common features. These positions often have less restrictions on the qualifications of candidates, such as their education background and working years at the grassroots level." Zheng Wenzhao, an expert of Huatu Education Research Institute, said. According to experts, the threshold for some popular posts during the registration period is relatively low. However, from the perspective of the whole examination, the overall level of competition in the national examination has kept rising steadily in recent years. The ratio of the number of applicants who have passed the national examination in 2022 to the number of employment plans is about