Academic leads his village to prosperity

Ex-president of Hunan Academy of Social Sciences turned down lucrative offers to head farming community

Zhu Youzhi did not hesitate for a second when he gave up a yearly salary of 1 million yuan ($161,200) to become a village head.

The 62-year-old was the former president of the Hunan Academy of Social Sciences, and two colleges offered him high salaries in 2013 when he retired from the academy. Instead, he chose to spend the rest of his life with the 3,200 poor farmers in Kaihui, a village in Changsha, Hunan province.