Guangdong's education authorities will create a detailed plan to recruit high school graduates from impoverished rural areas across the country into key universities in the province.

The move is part of an expanded program under the Ministry of Education to recruit 50,000 students from poor rural areas into key universities nationwide this year.

Apart from the 832 poor counties in last year's program, universities in this year's program will also recruit students from 10 provinces and autonomous regions, including Guangdong, Anhui and Gansu provinces, and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, which have relatively few students admitted to key universities.