BEIJING — A total of 965,000 people sat a unified written exam across China on Nov 24 to compete for 24,000 civil servant vacancies with the central authorities and their branches, the State Administration of Civil Service said.

Some 84.5 percent of 1.14 million qualified applicants took the 2020 civil servant recruitment exam, showed figures from the administration.

The data indicated that one in 40 examinees could become a civil servant.

The exam on Nov 24 was held simultaneously at 927 sites in 57 cities across the country.