According to the college graduate employment report for 2013 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ordinary college graduates from rural families face the most difficulties job hunting, and the unemployment rate of this group is as high as 30.5 percent. Such a phenomenon has drawn wide public concern, and some media outlets have even started calling these graduates from rural areas the "poor second generation".

The high unemployment rate of college graduates from rural areas indicates that nowadays it is difficult for rural students to change their fate and that of their families through study as their predecessors did. This is a dangerous sign of class solidification. Meanwhile, it is usually a great economic pressure for rural families to send their children to university. If the college graduates from rural areas fail to find a decent job to support themselves and their families, these rural families may fall into poverty.

Moreover, the so-called "poor second generation" phenomenon is making more and more rural citizens believe "study is useless", which is not good for families or the country. The authorities and society should provide necessary support to help these rural students, in order to avoid the intergenerational transmission of poverty.