The plan of college students' voluntary service in the west was implemented by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Ministry of Education according to the requirements of the the State Council executive meeting, the notice of the General Office of the State Council on doing a good job in the employment of college graduates in 2003 and the spirit of the national video conference on the employment of college graduates in 2003, and the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security gave relevant policies and financial support.

The plan has been implemented since 2003. According to the methods of open recruitment, voluntary registration, organization selection and centralized dispatch, a certain number of fresh graduates or graduate students from ordinary colleges and universities will be recruited every year to carry out 1-3 years of voluntary services in education, health, agricultural technology and poverty alleviation.

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In 2003, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly implemented the volunteer service plan for college students in the west according to the spirit of the the State Council executive meeting and the National Conference on Employment of College Graduates, recruiting a certain number of fresh graduates or graduate students from ordinary colleges and universities, and carrying out volunteer service at the grassroots level in the west for a period of 1-3 years to encourage volunteers to take root in local employment and start businesses after the expiration of their service.

According to the service content, the western plan is divided into seven special projects: basic education, serving agriculture, countryside and farmers, medical and health care, grass-roots youth work, grass-roots social management, serving Xinjiang and Tibet. In 20 18, the implementation scale of the western plan was18,300 people, including more than 2 100 members of the graduate education group of the China Youth Volunteers' Poverty Alleviation Relay Program.

Since the implementation of the 15 western plan, more than 270,000 college student volunteers have been sent to serve at the grassroots level in 22 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the central and western regions and more than 2 100 counties and cities in Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.