Higher Education Initiatives to Bring More from Countryside to Colleges

(Beijing) – Dozens of top universities in China have begun a recruitment campaign for students from impoverished rural areas, but an academic has said that such policies are not expected to shrink the widening urban-rural gap in access to education.

A total of 100 Chinese universities, including some of the country's best colleges, joined a Ministry of Education initiative to reserve at least 2 percent of their admissions spots for students from rural areas in poor regions in central and western provinces.