What does it mean to recruit college graduates to serve in villages?

In 1995, in order to solve the "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" issues, Jiangsu Province took the lead in recruiting college students to serve as rural grassroots cadres. In 1999, Hainan Province launched a college student “village official” program, and cities and counties such as Ding’an, Lingao, and Dongfang successively organized recruitment of college student “village officials”. In the same year, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province adopted an open recruitment method and became the first region in the country to implement the "one college student in one village" program. During this period, the number of college student “village officials” was small, but in various forms. It gradually opened up formal channels for intellectuals to return to the countryside since the reform and opening up, and accumulated an important practical foundation for subsequent development. In March 2000, Tianhe District of Guangzhou City openly recruited 52 college student "village officials", and more than 3,000 college students from all over the country went to apply for jobs. In 2002, Hebi City, Henan Province recruited 205 college student "village officials", kicking off the Henan Province college student "village official" project. In 2004, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, based on the pilot work, decided to select 1,000 college students to work in rural areas every year, with the goal of achieving the goal of having college student "village officials" in all 5,200 administrative villages in the city within 5 years. By the end of 2004, 10 provinces and municipalities across the country had launched the "village official" program for college students, mainly in the eastern and central regions. The work of "village officials" for college students has gradually entered the stage of overall promotion and exploration with multi-provincial linkage and regional as a unit. In July 2005, the General Office of the Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Guiding and Encouraging College Graduates to Find Employment at the Grassroots Level"; in February 2006, eight ministries and commissions including the Organization Department of the Central Committee, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Education issued a notice, Jointly organize college graduates to work at the grassroots level in rural areas to support education, agriculture, medical care and poverty alleviation. Since then, the work of college students as “village officials” has entered a large-scale experimental stage. Since 2005, Beijing, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Qinghai, Liaoning, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Anhui, Shanghai, Jilin, Hunan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Shandong and other provinces and cities have successively launched college student “village officials” "plan. As of the end of February 2008, 28 provinces and municipalities across the country had launched the "Village Official" program for college students, and 17 of them had launched the "Village Official" program for every village to have college students. In March 2008, the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, together with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, held a symposium on the selection of college graduates to work in villages, and arranged to recruit college graduates to work in villages, and college students were appointed as "village officials" The work has entered a period of comprehensive development. Entering 2009, the central government issued Document No. 1. In this "Several Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting Stable Agricultural Development and Sustained Increase in Farmers' Income in 2009", the "one village, one college student" plan was formally proposed, requiring continuous Improve long-term mechanisms and policy measures for college students to work in rural areas.

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"Implementation Opinions on Guiding and Encouraging College Graduates to Face Grassroots Employment"

Another decision by the Party Central Committee to accelerate the construction of a new socialist countryside A major decision.