A total of 1,021 examinees in Tibet have signed up for 2009 postgraduate entrance examination, 123 more than the number in 2008.

According to Yu Xuewen, a teacher from Lhasa Admission Office, some 686 examinees in Lhasa together with 335 members from other places of Tibet have applied for the coming examination and most of the students choose Beijing and Sichuan Province for their future academy.

(Xinhua News Agency November 24, 2008)