Recruiting postgraduates actually transfers some of the training expenses to society and individuals, Li said. As the number of postgraduate students increases, they should avoid crowding into only one field. Ideas about selecting a career should be changed. Many developing careers, like community service, need lots of qualified personnel. Xu Youchun from the Tsinghua Enterprise Group agreed with Li in this respect.
Qualified personnel are deficient in number and irrationally distributed across the nation.
For example, there is an urgent demand for university graduates in China's western region, but not many are willing to go there, Xu said. He hopes postgraduate students begin their careers in places where they can give full play to their professional knowledge. The Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian outside Beijing faces the prospect of becoming the archeological eqivalent of an endangered species. If appropriate measures are not taken, the site will possibly be erased from the World Cultural Heritage directory. In 1987, Zhoukoudian was listed as a World Cultural Heritage site and its relics were to receive world-class protection.