Currently,in Chinese rural areas,there lives the majority of the disadvantaged group in the society-----Chinese peasants,and there occurs the most serious social problem-----'-three dimensional'rural problem.Therefore,the rural area should be one of the focuses of Chinese social work.We hold that it is not only essential but also possible for the social work major in agricultural colleges and universities to orientate its developmental feature toward rural social work,and make itself the cradle of fostering professionals in rural social work.The development of the above mentioned feature of ru...