Since 2003, when the Communist Youth League Central Committee, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (the former Ministry of Personnel) launched the project of college students' voluntary service in the western region, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security (the former Department of Personnel), according to the unified deployment of the National Project Office of the Western Region Plan and in combination with the actual situation of Guangdong Province, We organized and implemented the Guangdong University Students' Volunteer Service Plan for Mountainous Areas. A certain number of fresh graduates of ordinary colleges and universities are recruited every year to carry out volunteer service in economically underdeveloped areas of Guangdong Province for one to two years in the form of open recruitment, voluntary registration, organizational selection and centralized dispatch.

The Mountain Area Plan was implemented in 2003 and co sponsored by the Communist Youth League Provincial Committee, the Provincial Department of Education, the Provincial Department of Finance, and the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security in 2010. It was renamed the Special Action of Guangdong University Students Volunteer Service for Grassroots Youth in the Mountain Area Plan, and selected and dispatched college graduates from Guangdong Province to villages and towns (streets) in the province to implement "double arrival" poverty alleviation He also served as the deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee, assisting in the construction of grass-roots organizations, employment and entrepreneurship of rural youth, youth volunteers and other grass-roots youth work. Since 2003, a total of 742 mountain plan volunteers have been recruited and dispatched, of which 87 were newly recruited and on duty in 2014.