Equitable job opportunities

That university graduates from impoverished families now face increasing difficulties finding a job after graduation has underscored the urgent need for the country to take a series of targeted measures to help them get a job so as to effectively prevent the "perpetuation" and expansion of the poor-rich gap in the country.

A report on employment conditions for university graduates in 2013, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently, indicates that graduates born of rural families find it more difficult to get a job than their urban counterparts. The unemployment rate of rural graduates reached as high as 30.5 percent. Such a high jobless rate means that the hopes of many rural students longing to change their fates through education have been dashed.

Such a fact, if not changed, will cause worrisome social consequences. It may once again consolidate the once-popular perception that "education is useless" and then dampen rural families' enthusiasm for letting their children go to school.