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Guangdong recruits 1,238 new volunteers for the Western Development Plan

2024-08-19

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Guangzhou, August 19 (China News Service) (Zhang Lu and Yue Qing) Recently, the 2024 Guangdong University Graduates Volunteer Service for Rural Revitalization Action departure ceremony and pre-job training were held in 12 cities in eastern, western and northern Guangdong, as well as Zhaoqing and Huizhou.

It is reported that since the recruitment information of Guangdong University Students Volunteer Service in Western China (Mountainous Areas) Plan and Guangdong University Graduates Volunteer Service in Rural Revitalization Action was released in April this year, a total of 1,238 Western Plan (including graduate teaching teams) volunteers from 186 universities across the country have been recruited through qualification review, selection, physical examination, public announcement and other links. Among them, 542 people were sent to 11 provinces in the central and western regions, including Tibet, Xinjiang, and Guangxi, the highest number in history; 696 people were sent to 12 cities in eastern, western and northern Guangdong and Zhaoqing City, and Longmen County, Huizhou City to serve at the grassroots level.

According to statistics, among the volunteers newly recruited and dispatched by Guangdong in the Western Development Plan in 2024 (including national and local projects), 98% have a bachelor's degree or above, 8.4% are postgraduates, and 94% are party members and league members. Zhuang Lingzhi, a 2020 doctoral student in sociology at Renmin University of China, said that the volunteer service rural revitalization action is not only a tempering platform for encouraging talents to be utilized, but also a path to respond to the call of the times.

In the central and western provinces, Guangdong young volunteers bravely shoulder the mission of the times and strive to be the vanguard and fresh force in the fields of scientific and technological innovation, rural revitalization, green development, social services, and defending the country and guarding the border. "Hold together like pomegranate seeds", Liang Chuhong, a 2022 master's student in traditional Chinese medicine from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, will be the fifth young volunteer of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine to be welcomed by the People's Hospital of Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. Following Liu Hongyuan in 2020, Lin Yuqiao in 2021, Yan Jiali in 2022, and Liu Xiyi in 2023, Liang Chuhong, the volunteer in 2024, will take over the baton of the four generations of young volunteers of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine and go to Xinjiang and Qiemo County People's Hospital to exert the power of traditional Chinese medicine in primary medical care and continue the light and heat of Guangdong young volunteers.

It is understood that in the past four years, Guangdong's rural revitalization volunteers have achieved full coverage of the first batch of typical counties and towns in the "Hundreds of Millions of Projects" in eastern, western and northern Guangdong. Among them, 3,757 people were selected to serve in the town-based assistance and village support work teams, 4,157 people were selected to serve in township comprehensive service positions, and 2,638 people were selected to serve in township industrial parks, education services and other positions. At present, there are nearly 5,000 volunteers serving the rural revitalization action at the grassroots level, helping the "Hundreds of Millions of Projects" to empower rural revitalization throughout the process. (End)