Governments at all levels stress the training of ethnic minority cadres so as to enable the Tibetan people to better exercise their rights in national and local affairs. Statistics for 1996 show an increase of 18.22 percent in the number of cadres of the Tibetan and other ethnic minorities over 1992, making up 73.68 of the total number of cadres in Tibet or an increase of 4.48 percentage points. At the end of 1998, there were 787,000 cadres in Tibet, with those of the Tibetan ethnic group accounting for 71.6 percent.

Attention is also given to the study and use of the Tibetan language. In 1987 the Fifth Session of the Fourth People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region promulgated Some Provisions on the Study, Use and Development of Tibetan as a Spoken and Written Language. The people's government of the Tibet Autonomous Region drafted the corresponding rules for their implementation. Tibetan and Chinese languages are to be used for important conferences and documents issued by the various organs throughout the region. Tibetan parties to court proceedings can use Tibetan during the investigation and hearing of the case, and legal documents are also written in Tibetan. Currently, Tibetans hold key posts in procuratorates and law courts at all levels.