The next year, Zhang Zhidong and Yuan Shikai, leaders of the reform faction, petitioned to eliminate the examination system. This was done in 1905, and the entire structure of education was completely renovated.
第二年，改革派大員張之洞、袁世凱等又奏請廢除科舉制度，一九○五年成為事實，整個教育結構，徹底翻新。