The Number

1,000 students

More than 1,000 students in a quake-hit area of southwest China's Yunnan province will take the national college entrance examinations in prefabricated houses on Saturday. As of Wednesday, 40 prefab houses had been assembled as exam rooms, and another 80 as classrooms and dormitories for the students and teachers, said Zhang Ming, an official with the provincial housing and urban-rural development department on Thursday.