Boost for rural areas

It might have been too idealistic to associate the future of a university graduate with the development of a rural village two decades ago when the number of graduates could not even meet the needs of various institutions, enterprises and government departments in urban areas.

But such an association was not only close to reality but also increasingly practical when some local governments started to recruit college graduates to work as village heads or assistants two years ago.

The decision now to recruit as many as 100,000 university graduates in five years to work as village heads should be lauded as a move good for both the training of these young people and the construction of the new countryside.