China's college grads lacking in revolutionary zeal

College graduates in China are reluctant to work in the countryside to improve the lot of farmers, despite the government’s push based on the idealism of youth, the Xinhua news agency said. China, which struggles to find jobs for millions of new graduates leaving universities annually, is encouraging them to spend time working in the economically underdeveloped countryside as teachers, nurses and in other skilled jobs. During the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, millions of Chinese students went into the countryside to learn from the peasants out of revolutionary zeal. Read the article at Chinadaily.com.