Drive to attract skilled retirees to rural areas
China DailyTang Shangjun, 93 years old, offers instruction to a student in his wooden house in Wuhan village, Central China's Hunan province. Population loss has long beset China's less well-off countryside and hindered efforts to vitalize rural regions, experts said. Apart from the agricultural ministry, which in the latest institutional reform in March merged with the National Rural Revitalization Administration, the circular's nine authors include the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner, and the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. "The returnees would bring back not only spending power, but also their social connections, management expertise and up-to-date ideas they grasped during their long careers," said Yang Yifan, a professor at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, Sichuan province, who focuses on aging and rural development issues. A commentary published by news website ThePaper.cn said tapping a wider range of talent would create a more abundant supply, which will help give "powerful momentum" to the cause of rural vitalization.
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