17,000 graduates to serve in W. China
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E-mail Xinhua, July 31, 2012
A total of 17,000 graduates will be sent to west China to conduct volunteer work and hold positions at the community level, according to a statement from a symposium held by the Central Committee of the China Communist Youth League on Tuesday.
As of present, the plan of sending graduates to serve in the west, jointly established by government bodies, including the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance in 2003, has dispatched more than 170,000 graduates in 10 groups to serve at the community level in central and west China for one to three years.
Moreover, 14 groups, or more than 6,500 young volunteers, have been sent to teach in poverty-stricken areas for one year since the first group of volunteer teachers was dispatched in 1999.
According to statistics released by the symposium, 429 graduates were selected from China's leading universities as "excellent contributors to the west," and they will serve in various positions in government offices and enterprises in the country's western regions.
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