Recently, the State Council issued a guideline on improving the quality of the home service industry and expanding its scope, requiring each province to have at least one university offering home service-related majors.
China's home service industry has maintained an annual growth rate of 20 percent in recent years.
Although the industry is large in volume, its quality is not high due to, among other things, the mediocre quality of home service practitioners.
Many regard home services as too low-end to be a university major. Such views reflect traditional values where nurses are seen as inferior to university students. These wrong concepts have resulted in the low quality of home service practitioners. As a matter of fact, the home service industry requires comprehensive competence from its practitioners and setting up home service majors meets market needs.
It is also notable that most students who have received a diploma in home service-related majors participate in the management of home service companies. To attract more excellent talent to the home service industry, prejudice against the profession should be rejected and respect should be afforded to home service practitioners and their legal rights and interests should be protected. Only in this way will more students choose home service majors without the fear of being ridiculed.
(This is an edited excerpt of an article originally published in Qilu Evening News on July 8)