Attributing the Success to the Coordinated Development of Education and the Economy

Abstract

Jinjiabao village, Ba county, is located along the banks of the Da Qing River. It has a population of 6,000. Since 1978, it has placed education in an important place in the course of developing their economy. Over the past nine years, they have selected and sent 126 people to various large specialized institutes and schools and state-run enterprises to make advanced studies; they have organized 8 medium-level specialized and middle-grade technical classes and trained up to 224 persons of medium-grade technology and management caliber; they have established 2 specialized classes of collegiate level, and enabled 107 persons to receive higher education; they have also accorded training to staff members and workers, making 80 percent of 2,920 workers receive varying degrees of training and fostering; and now 1,453 members of the labor force are of a cultural level of primary school and middle school, or roughly 50 percent of the entire labor force. Over the past 9 years, their investments in education amount...