Gurmey (L) receives a hada, a piece of silk used as a greeting gift, for his admission into the Department of Journalism of Tibet University, at a school for the blind in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2015. The 20-year-old Tibetan student Gurmey was among the first children to be educated in Tibet school for the blind in 1999 and the first visually impaired student to be admitted by Tibet University, a comprehensive university, having passed China's college admission exam or "gaokao" in 2015. Gurmey said that he hoped to be a teacher and open a bookshop for the blind to help more blind children acquire knowledge. (Xinhua/Liu Dongjun)

A member of a band consisting of visually impaired people play Zhanian instrument, a traditional Tibetan plucked instrument, to congratulate Gurmey on his admission into the Department of Journalism of Tibet University, at a school for the blind in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2015. The 20-year-old Tibetan student Gurmey was among the first children to be educated in Tibet school for the blind in 1999 and the first visually impaired student to be admitted by Tibet University, a comprehensive university, having passed China's college admission exam or "gaokao" in 2015. Gurmey said that he hoped to be a teacher and open a bookshop for the blind to help more blind children acquire knowledge. (Xinhua/Liu Dongjun)