Jilin's fertile plans for farmers

Official: Larger-scale production, rising income make it a 'decent job'

Jilin province is shaking off the stereotype of farming as a low-paid, dead-end job as revenues increase and a senior provincial official vows to make it a desirable profession.

"Farmers will have a greater interest in farming and regard it as a decent job when they have a higher income than urban residents," Jilin's top political leader Wang Rulin said on March 9 at the National People's Congress.