Yin Dafu and students work at a farm of Zhongxin primary school in Zhaixia Township of Yuanzhou District, Yichun, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sept. 1, 2021. In 1997, the 19-year-old Yin Dafu voluntarily came to Zhaixia Township where he started the career of a rural teacher. China plans to recruit 84,330 college graduates as teachers in rural primary and middle schools in 2021 to promote rural vitalization. The recruitment is mainly for the once-impoverished areas and those inhabited by ethnic minorities to consolidate poverty reduction results, according to a notice issued by the ministries of education and finance on carrying out rural special-post teacher recruitment program this year. (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)
