The youth expressed their understanding and support to the
country's call of seeking employment in the comparatively backward
west and at grass roots, as they attended the youth's once
five-year meeting in Beijing this week.
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The First Plenum of All China Youth
Federation's 10th National Committee and All China Students'
Federation's 24th National Congress held in Beijing from Friday
to Sunday have witnessed more than 1,900 participants, who are all
young people from various fields, and colleges and universities, to
discuss topics youth are interested in.
"Only by working in tough environment could we accomplish what
is responsibility and what we should cherish in our lives," said
Gao Tian, the post graduate in China's prestigious Shanghai-based
Fudan University,
at a forum on contemporary young students' healthy growth and
responsibility.
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Gao, a young woman who had never left Shanghai since she was born,
voluntarily chose to work in northwest China's Ningxia
Hui Autonomous Region for one year as a village teacher. She
helped four of her students at the poor, arid Xihaigu Prefecture,
entering into college, which has been a great achievement since the
place had never seen a student pass the entrance exam before.
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"I came from the countryside, and I have a complex to my hometown,
so it is natural for me to choose to go back after graduation, as a
way to pay my due efforts to the development of my hometown," said
Zhu Xuejun, a senior college student in China Agriculture
University from north China's Shanxi
Province.
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At the beginning of this month, the State Council issued a circular
to encourage college graduates to seek jobs at grass roots so as to
release the employment pressure in big cities and to satisfy the
hunger for professionals in the comparatively poor areas.
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And in the following weeks, top leaders including Hu Jintao
and Jia
Qinglin have made the same call.
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The number of college graduates rose from over one million in 1999
to 3.38 million in 2005. As a result, many graduates failed to find
jobs in the recent years in big cities while higher educated
professionals are badly needed in comparatively backward areas,
particularly the western part.
The reasons that college graduates are reluctant to work in the
west are numerous, such as the income gap between developed regions
and underdeveloped ones, the immature employment modes of small
companies which make some graduates feel insecure and so on.
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"We established a flexible identity registration system to dispel
graduates' worries of not being able to go back big cities later
on," said Hou Jianliang, the vice minister of personnel, to solve
the problems, "And the government promises to support those working
in grass roots with special funds."
(Xinhua News Agency July 25, 2005)