YOUTH EMPLOYMENT IN CHINA 35 1955 this reached 288,000 and 441,000 in 1957. Besides, 229,000 students were enrolled in technical middle schools in 1949, whose number rose to 537,600 in 1955. The target for 1957 was sought to be over 778,000.6 The number of graduates in different technical professions in different periods is given in Table I. TABLE I NUMBI SR OF GRADU^I iTES FROM INS! 'ITUTES OF HIGHER I ^EARNING Yeu Engineering Agriculture Economics and finance Medicine Natural sciences Pedagogy Liberal arts 1949 1955 1957 4,752 18,614 17,161 1,718 2,614 3,104 3,137 4,699 3,651 1,314 6,480 6,200 1,584 2,015 3,524 1,890 12,133 15,948 2,521 4,679 4,294 SOVRCE; Ten Great Years', Peking, 1960, p 196. Guo Moro in his Report on Culture and Educational Work to the Third Session of the First Nutional Committee o f the Chinese Peopled Political Consultative Committee (CPPCC) slated: "According to the preliminary statistics compiled by the different quarters, the need for national construction cadres within 5-6 years shall necessitate some, 15000 senior technical cadres, and administative cadres, 500,000 intermediate technical cadres, 10,000 teachers in higher education, 100,000 teachers in secondary education 1,500,000 teachers in elementary education and 200,000 senior and intermediate health cadres. Large numbers of financial, political, judicial and minority nationalities cadres shall also be needed." In the first half of 1950, there were 195 institutions of higher education with an aggregate enrolment of 128,000 throughout the country. In the same year, 17,400 students graduated from institutions of higher education. There were 507 technical schools for training intermediate technical cadres with a total enrolment of 110,000. There were 605 normal schools for training elementary teachers with an enrolment of 165,000 and 4,015 ordinary middle schools with 1,290,000 students,of whom one-fifth TAB LE II Ni JMBER 0; F STUDEN FTS IN VARIO us INSTITU' res Tea Institutes of higher learning Technical middle school? Middle schools Primary schools Spare time institutes of higher education Spare time technical middle schools fin Spare time middle schools thousands} Spare time primary schools 1949 1955 1957 21 55 56 72 235 146 280 969 1.299 2,387 10,254 12,307 O.I 15.9 75.9 0.1 195.0 588.0 1.167 2,714 4,538 6,267 SOURCE: Ten Great Tears, Peking, 1960,pp 194-198.