How do the roots of youth take root in the countryside? Survey on Jiangsu’s first generation college student village officials

On May 13, the 2009 interview list for Jiangsu college student village officials was announced. Nearly 11,000 people stood out from 30,000 competitors to compete for 5,010 college student village official positions.

Since 1995, before the large-scale recruitment of college student village officials across the province, 11 major cities and 26 counties (cities, districts) in Jiangsu have recruited nearly 3,000 college students to villages in more than ten years. Work. Across the country, there are more than 20 provinces and cities recruiting college student village officials during the same period. According to the requirements of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 100,000 to 200,000 college student village officials will be recruited across the country in the next few years.

The enthusiasm for college student village officials continues to heat up, and society is concerned about: How many college student village officials will eventually stay in the countryside? What are the reasons for staying, from personal to external environment? In April, our reporter selected five counties and cities in southern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu, and northern Jiangsu to find answers from the first-generation college student village officials who have taken root in the countryside.

Remaining in the village or hometown means "staying"

Among the first-generation college student village officials recruited from various places, how many of them are still in the village after more than ten years? According to the reporter's investigation, Peixian and Suining recruited 23 and 35 people respectively, and none of them stayed in the village. Among the 114 people recruited by Donghai, 42 stayed in the village. Jiangdu recruited 51 people in the first batch, and 11 stayed in the village. village.

According to a survey by the relevant provincial departments, only more than 40% of the university student village officials recruited in the province were still in the position of village cadres by 2007. Of the more than 8,000 college student village officials recruited in Sichuan, less than 30% stayed in the villages.

“Get down, do well, and stay” is the society’s expectation for college student village officials. Under the conditions of market economy, people's development needs cannot be ignored, and it is unrealistic for all college students to serve as village officials for a lifetime. Many of the first-generation college student village officials stayed in the towns. As far as serving rural areas is concerned, "staying in the countryside" and "staying in the village" both mean "staying". To improve the "rate of staying in the countryside and staying in the village", there are some experiences:

Recruit more local children and do not engage in "Academic qualifications are expensive." Nanjing, Suzhou and other places clearly recruit local students, while Jiangyin requires that the registered permanent residence is in the town where the recruitment is held. "They are familiar with local customs and are easily accepted by farmers. How can they be village officials when they come from other places and can't even understand the language?" said Ma Hongpeng, organizational committee member of Fenghuang Town in Zhangjiagang. The dozen or so first-generation college student village officials the reporter contacted were all undergraduate or junior college students. Li Yanhong, deputy director of the Organization Department of Peixian County, said, "Many of them are college students. They can accept working in townships. It is not easy for college students to find a better place."

The policy has become clear. Before recruiting college student village officials, Peixian County made it clear that "when relations enter the township, people go to the village first." For college student village officials, they are managed according to the personnel of the agency. Although there is no civil servant establishment, the work is relatively stable, which is the practice in many places. Cao Liangwei, deputy mayor of Wuduan Town, Peixian County, said that the smaller the room for policy ambiguity, the less speculative mentality. "If you know that you will work in the township in the future, those who don't want to come will not come, and those who come will be easy to stay."

< p> Benefits are guaranteed. For the first batch of college student village officials, most places refer to township cadres or fully allocated public institutions to determine salary standards, pay them from the finance, and apply for relevant insurance. In developed areas, college student village officials have a good income and no worries. The monthly salary of Jiangyin college student village officials is 2,300 yuan, and there is also a year-end bonus. There are also a few places where it is difficult to guarantee the salary of college student village officials. In 1999, a city in central Jiangsu recruited 36 college student village officials, stipulating that they should receive their salaries from the village. Due to collective debts in most villages, wages were in arrears. By 2007, only one person was left on the job.

Refined assessment. In Zhangjiagang, college student village officials are hired by the city, the town, or the village in various forms, but they all have clear job objectives. “This year, the town requires our village’s economy to grow by 15%, and we have no way to explain if we fail to achieve it.” Xu Minfeng, secretary of the Party branch of Fenghuang Village, Fenghuang Town, Zhangjiagang, said that early every morning, he rushed to the village headquarters to meet with people to find a solution.

Make good use of the rules of "acquaintance society"

It was Friday evening when I met Song Ping. She had just returned to town from the village, and her flat leather shoes were covered with some dust.

The reason for not wearing high heels comes from my first experience in going to the countryside. Eleven years ago, Song Ping returned to Suining after graduating from a college in Shanghai and went to Guannan Village, Guanshan Township to work as an assistant to the director.

"The dirt road was full of potholes. I wore high heels to go there, and my feet were worn out within a few days. I'm embarrassed to say that I just endured it."

The countryside rejects the high heels that symbolize urban life. The farmer greeted the city girl with suspicion.

“A few days after taking office, the village party secretary sent me to lead a team to manage the river.

When have I ever done this? The villagers were dilly-dallying, hoping to see me make a fool of myself. I picked up the shovel and dug the earth! The publicity committee member took a loudspeaker and shouted: 'Gentlemen, don't let a girl look down on you. ’”

That day, Song Ping had blisters on his hands, but it was worth the pain. “The village party secretary took my hand and said with a smile: ‘Not bad, not bad’. The folks are also willing to give me face, and I bring tea and water wherever I go. ”

Song Ping’s experience is very common among the first generation of college student village officials. Only by winning the recognition of farmers and avoiding “rejection reactions” can college student village officials serve for a long time. College student village officials who choose to leave, In addition to the fact that the treatment is not up to expectations, it is also mostly because of the inability to integrate into the countryside.

To be recognized by the farmers, you must emotionally integrate into the farmers, said Zhang Yanqing from the Organization Department of Suining County Party Committee, “I just arrived in Qiu 12 years ago. In Wei Village, I live in a farmer's house, but far away from them: I cook my own meals and read novels behind closed doors. A month later, I finally walked out and found someone to chat with from house to house. The fellow villagers gradually liked me, and I got rid of loneliness and entered the role of a village official."

Believe what you see, don't believe it, a pragmatic farmer Recruit pragmatic college student village officials. In 2002, Tian Wen'an went to Donghai Dahu Village as deputy secretary. Hearing that the water quality was too hard, he asked for subsidies and raised funds to build a water plant. "Every day, I went to the beach to pick up pebbles and peel off a few layers of skin. "Two years later, the whole village had tap water. In 1997, when Huang Jung arrived in Minhe Village, Jiangdu, the first thing he did was to spend money to build a bridge. In the same year, Cao Liangwei arrived in Huzhai Village, Pei County, and led people to build a bridge. Turning over water stations and transforming depressions, “It’s cold and no one puts stones in the water, so I jump in with my pants on! "This year, thousands of acres of lowland harvested an extra season of grain, and the farmers are really happy.

The countryside has poetic pastoral scenery, but also countless difficulties: collecting money from farmers, mediating conflicts, mobilizing unplanned pregnancies Women undergoing surgery... Han Fangxing, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Wuduan Town, Peixian County, lamented: If you don't go to the countryside, you won't know how tired the village officials are. They have to do everything well, but Suining has nothing to do. Chai Jun, assistant to the mayor of Weiji Town, recalled that ten years ago, he went to a farmer's house for the first time to collect a few hundred yuan and made more than a dozen trips.

Faced with "real rural areas, real farmers", To solve difficulties, it is not enough to put in effort, it is more important to make good use of the rules of the village game.

Cao Liangwei said, "In 1998, when I was the assistant to the village director, the Wu brothers fought hard and the court refused to accept the verdict. I asked Accountant Zhang from the village to come forward, scolded the two of them, and then told them how to divide the homestead and how to support the elderly. No matter what Lao Zhang said, how would they respond? Fei Xiaotong is right to say that rural China is a society of acquaintances, where people are reasonable and follow the law, but sometimes they also value authority. They are senior and their harsh words are listened to. Yan Cunchong, deputy mayor of Lulou Town, Peixian County, believes that following the psychology of farmers and making good use of techniques recognized by farmers can often get twice the result with half the effort.

Do it well, use it well, and keep it long

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Only if you can retain them can you do a good job; only if you use them well can you retain them. From the organizational department to the college student village officials, everyone agrees with this concept.

In fact, it is a matter of whether to retain or not to retain. , for the first-generation college student village officials, the fulcrum of the trade-off lies in whether they can find a platform to realize their personal values ??in the countryside and whether they can find a psychological balance in the comparison of multiple interests.

Xu Minfeng, a college student and village official, has always refused his father's request and refused to go home to manage the company. As the secretary of the Fenghuang Village Party Branch, he prefers the sense of accomplishment of running the village as a company.

"Utilize. During the financial crisis, we purchased real estate at low prices. We recently bought a batch of factories, which were 7 million yuan cheaper than the estimated price. We rented them out and made a profit of 800,000 to 900,000 yuan a year. "The young man has endless things to do," he said. "The year before last when I became secretary, the per capita income of the village was just over 10,000 yuan, and the collective net assets were 9.61 million yuan. Now, they have increased by one-third and nearly half respectively." He doesn't care about the annual income of 70,000 yuan, but he values ??the refrigerator that the town awards to outstanding village officials. "This is my hometown. The longer I work, the deeper my affection becomes, and the more reluctant I am to leave." ”

Only by “using it well” can we encourage college student village officials to “do better”; only by “developing well” can we encourage them to “stay longer”.

Retention Among the first-generation college student village officials in townships, a considerable number have entered the township leadership team, and many have become the backbone of government agencies. In Peixian and Donghai, seven people have been promoted to deputy secretaries of township party committees and deputy town (township) officials. Long, Suining has 12 people.

Liu Jin, deputy director of the Organization Department of Donghai County, said that the development speed of the first batch of college student village officials is faster than the overall civil servants from school to government agencies. "For college student village officials, we have promoted and trained a group of them. There are already 6 people "Educated as reserve cadres at the deputy section level." Various localities have planned multiple ways out for college student village officials, such as giving them appropriate care when taking the civil service exams. In Donghai, nearly half of the village officials who are college students have been admitted to civil servants.

Many grassroots cadres believe that the fate of first-generation college student village officials should be viewed with an open eye. To guide college students into rural areas, we must not only cultivate more outstanding grassroots cadres, but also cultivate talents for the entire society. For those who choose to leave, the experience of village officials is also a wealth of life growth.

"In 1998, I went to Zhanggang Village in Jiangdu to work as a village official. I only worked for a year and then returned home to set up a factory, but I benefited from it all my life. When I went to the countryside, I truly understood the grassroots society; as a village official "Experiencing the difficulty of doing things in rural areas has also worn away a lot of my impatience," said Wei Changjin, the boss of Jiangdu.