Number of graduate students recommended and total number of applicants. Shanxi University, located in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in China. It is a national "double first-class" university, a "Ministry-provincial university" jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Shanxi Provincial People's Government, and a key university in Shanxi Province. According to the school official website, the number of graduate students and the total number of applicants in Shanxi University is determined. In fact, the number of guaranteed research places is issued by the Ministry of Education every year according to the situation, and the number of guaranteed research places in colleges and universities is relatively fixed and will not change much.