Using cellulose tape to occupy a chair for study?

Many students in a college in Baoji, a city in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, have recently adopted a new way of ensuring their seat in a study room in their library, by tying their chairs to their desktops with sellotape.

A local news portal "Hsw.cn" reports that a piece of paper was also found tied to the chair bearing the generic message "For postgraduate exam" and the surname of its occupier.

But according to an administrator of the library study room, some of the students who occupy these seats don't really come to study.

Many college students admitted during the interview that it is a college tradition to claim a chair before they go to the study room to revise.

A freshman surnamed Li felt that he could understand the behavior for the sake of working in a quiet environment. Another freshman surnamed Zheng, however, criticized this way of occupying chairs and desks as rudely overbearing.