As the first national normative document, the State Council 1986 forwarded the Interim Provisions of the State Education Commission on Overseas Students, which listed physical health, politics, business and foreign languages as the basic conditions for public overseas students. Going abroad for medical examination is first and foremost the request of the sending party. It is stipulated that "the health status of all kinds of students studying abroad must meet the prescribed standards for studying abroad, pass the examination in provincial and municipal hospitals and obtain a health certificate (the certificate is valid for one year)."
At that time, the physical examination standards for international students were very specific, stipulating that more than a dozen situations could not be selected, including active tuberculosis, active extrapulmonary tuberculosis, thoracoplasty and lobectomy, serious chronic diseases, organic heart disease, hypertension, hepatitis, nephritis and serious urogenital diseases, blood system diseases, psychosis or epilepsy, severe neurosis, cancer, schistosomiasis, leprosy, physical dysplasia and severe visual impairment.