What areas are included in the Western Plan?

Main service areas: including Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Hainan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, covering 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).

This plan has been implemented since 2003. According to the methods of open recruitment, voluntary registration, organizational selection, and centralized dispatch, a certain number of fresh graduates or postgraduate students from ordinary colleges and universities are recruited every year to carry out work at the grassroots level in the west. 1-3 years of voluntary services in education, health, agricultural technology, poverty alleviation, etc.

Extended information

Service content:

1. Support education. Volunteers for this special action mainly engage in education and teaching management work for 1-2 years in township primary and secondary schools in impoverished counties in the western region. Recruitment target: fresh college graduates, current graduate students, teachers majors will be given priority.

2. Supportive medicine. Volunteers for this special action mainly engage in medical and health work for 1-2 years in township health centers in poor counties in the western region, as well as some county-level hospitals and epidemic prevention stations. Recruitment target: fresh college graduates and postgraduate students majoring in medicine.

3. Support agriculture. Volunteers for this special action mainly engage in agricultural science and technology and poverty alleviation work for 1-2 years in township agricultural (forestry, water conservancy) technology stations in impoverished counties in the western region. Recruitment target: fresh college graduates and postgraduate students majoring in agriculture, forestry, water conservancy and other majors.

Baidu Encyclopedia-College Student Volunteer Service West Plan