It's wrong for rich coastal colleges to 'buy' professors

THE COMPETITION among domestic colleges for famous professors is getting fiercer. Reports show that some universities in western China have lost so many excellent professors to better paying universities in the wealthier coastal regions that they have stopped providing certain majors. Thepaper.cn comments:

According to reports, earlier this year a college in South China's Guangdong province offered an annual salary of 1.2 million yuan ($172,513) plus a fixed research fund of 20 million yuan to lure a talented professor from a university in a less developed region. That payment is extremely high compared with the average salary of 53,615 yuan.

It is wrong for the wealthier universities in the well-developed coastal region to lure the most talented professors from the less wealthy universities in the western region with unreasonably high salaries.