On November 1, 2026, a reminder from the National Civil Service Administration was trending on Weibo. Its substance: the 3.45 million candidates who cleared qualification review for the 2027 central civil service recruitment must complete registration confirmation and payment between November 1 and November 6 on the official special website, then print an admission ticket and sit the exam [1]. The administration had put out the same instruction in a notice credited to it six days earlier, when qualification review closed [2].

Confirmation is the gate. The notice states: candidates must go through registration confirmation to take the exam [2]. A cleared application that misses the six-day window does not become an exam seat. Confirmation is also the step where the official process asks for a payment.

3.45 million cleared, from 4.23 million who registered

The administration's figures give the population this step is for. 4.23 million completed registration and identity verification by the October 23 cutoff at 6 p.m.; 3.935 million had submitted applications by October 24 at 6 p.m.; 3.45 million passed employer qualification review when that closed on October 26 at 6 p.m. That leaves about 97 cleared candidates for each position in the recruitment plan [2].

Prior cycles show the same checkpoint, documented by the administration itself. One cycle earlier, the administration issued the same reminder when qualification review closed: a notice carried on gov.cn on October 26, 2024, in the administration's name, states that candidates must confirm to sit the exam, puts that cycle's cleared pool at 3.416 million, about 86 cleared candidates for each position, and sets that cycle's confirmation window at November 1 to 6, the same dates as now [3]. The government's English portal reported the same cycle as a record 3.416 million qualified applicants for 39,721 positions [4]. The counts move from year to year; the design, review cutoff then confirmation window then exam, holds.

Six days, one website: what confirmation requires

According to the official 2027 announcement, as reposted by the training companies Offcn and Huatu, the recruitment plan and application guide are published on the special website at bm.scs.gov.cn/kl2027, and the announcement names that address [5] [7].

Registration already ran through the same portal under identity checks. The portal's own pages required real-name, real-person authentication through the electronic social-security card, among other means, by October 23 at 6 p.m.; candidates who missed it could not submit an application [6]. Confirmation and payment continue on the same site.

After the window, the mirrors place admission-ticket printing on November 23–29 and the written exams on November 28–29, with results due in January 2027 [7]. Those are the training companies' dates from the announcement text; the portal carries the authoritative calendar.

The administration no longer runs its own site

The administration's website, www.scs.gov.cn, now serves a shutdown notice: the site went offline at the end of August, civil-service information has moved to the Central Organization Department's related websites, and exam operations, from announcements to position queries, registration and scores, continue on the special website [8]. The real channel map therefore has two tiers: news and policy statements from government sites, and exam operations on the special website alone.

That structure leaves room for imitation. A page that imitates the operations tier, asking for confirmation or payment away from the special website, sits outside the process the official notices describe [5] [8]. Prior cycles produced dated warnings around this exam: the administration's standing reminder states that it publishes no textbooks of its own and designates no training classes, and tells candidates to treat commercial training, websites and publications warily [9]; that language appeared, dated October 2024, in the notice for the prior selection cycle. State media compiled roundups of common scam forms, a Xinhua-credited summary ran in November 2024, and police issued their own warnings, including one from Tangshan that December [10] [11].

What can be verified before November 6

The window runs through November 6 [1] [2]. The portal handling it is the same one that carried registration [6]. The routine that protects it is the same as in prior cycles: stay on the special website, match every claim against it.

For the candidate:

  • Complete confirmation and payment on the special website (bm.scs.gov.cn/kl2027) between November 1 and 6 [1] [2].
  • Reach the portal by typing its address or from the official announcement; check the address sits under a .gov.cn domain before entering identity details or paying [5] [8].
  • Treat “official-designated” textbooks, courses or paid confirmation help as contrary to the administration's stated position; its standing reminder designates none [9].
  • When ticket printing opens (the mirrors' dates: November 23–29 [7]), print the admission ticket from the special website.

For the parent or helper:

  • Pay only on the special website's .gov.cn domain [2] [8].
  • If someone claims bureau affiliation and offers to handle confirmation for a fee, match the claim against the special website before responding [8].
  • Announcements circulating on social platforms, including the reminder that prompted this piece, can be matched against the special website itself [8].

The reminder that trended on November 1 reads as routine paperwork. The six days underneath it decide which of 3.45 million cleared applications turn into exam seats. Candidates who confirm on the official site by November 6 have satisfied the one condition the administration's reminder names for sitting the exam [2].