Education is the key to destiny

After holding a graduation dinner and taking photos with his classmates at the School of Chinese Language and Literature of Beijing Normal University, Zhuqu Tengpa Gyatso's next stop will be a junior high school in Ngari prefecture, Tibet autonomous region.

"I'm worried that I won't be able to update my micro blog because the Internet in Ngari is inconsistent," says the 26-year-old, who was born in Tibet and is about to become a teacher.

He is one of the first students to graduate from the "Free Teacher Education" project, that was launched in 2007 and offers free education to hundreds of students at six Chinese universities every year. In return they have to work in their hometown elementary or high schools for 10 years after graduation.