Do you still remember the fuzzy agent in the Get Smart the movie? Well, it seems that some high school graduates from Jilin province are much better than him: They used the latest cutting-edge equipment to cheat on the Gaokao exams.

Honestly, as a former journalist, I’ve never seen stuff this unbelievable before - a mini camera hidden in a ruler that sends a video stream to a distant place outside the examination room, so that “experts” can send back the correct answers via the invisible earphone — the kind of thing you only see in 24.

China Youth Daily (中国青年报) was the first news outlet to reveal the dark secrets of Gaokao in Jilin province this year. There is a really huge industry behind all this — RMB 300 equipment sold for RMB 10,000! Unbelievable.