13. Tibetan delegates focus on education
  http://www.chinanews.com/news/9603/04/030403aa.eng
  
  
  Beijing, March 4 (CNS) -- Delegates from Tibet will table
  proposals on vocational education at the upcoming National
  People's Congress(NPC).
  
  A Tibetan delegate, Bai Zhen, said that in addition to motions on
  individual proposals relating to the development of the Region
  being presented by the group from Tibet, she herself would
  submit four proposals focusing on vocational education in the
  Tibetan Autonomous Region.
  
  The Region presently has just one well-equipped vocational
  training centre, which far from meets local demand, Miss Bai
  Zhen said. It was built with financial support from the Region's
  Education Commission.
  
  As the local economy got off to a late start and was short of
  capital, she suggested that the central government annually
  earmark a special fund for the development of vocational
  education in Tibet.
  
  According to authorities, 16 of the twenty NPC delegates from
  Tibet will attend the upcoming Congress. Of the four absentees,
  two are on duty, one has fallen ill and the other is hemmed in by
  heavy snow falls.
  
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