China has completed its higher education plan for farming and forestry in the coming five years.

An official from the Ministry of Education said in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province that college enrollments in agriculture will continue grow in the coming five years, at an annual growth rate of 12 percent.

By the year 2005, China will have 736,000 college students majoring in farming and forestry, accounting for 3.2 percent of the country's college students. By 2010, China will complete the high education system in farming and forestry, in a bid to supply more personnel for modernization construction of agriculture.

More efforts will be made to increase schooling facilities and improve the higher education quality in agriculture, stressed the official.

(People's Daily October 22, 2001)