Question 1: What is the Western Plan?
According to the spirit of the Executive Meeting of the State Council and the National Conference on the Employment of College Graduates, since 2003, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security have jointly implemented the plan of college students' voluntary service in the west, recruiting a certain number of current graduates or graduate students of ordinary colleges and universities every year to carry out volunteer service at the grass-roots level in the west for 1-3 years. From 2021 to 2022, the Western Plan, closely centering on the relevant deployment of comprehensively implementing the rural revitalization strategy, will adjust the original seven special projects of basic education, serving agriculture, rural areas, medical care, youth work at the grassroots level, social management at the grassroots level, serving Xinjiang, and serving Tibet into rural education, serving township and village construction, healthy villages, youth work at the grassroots level, rural social governance, and serving Xinjiang Serve seven special projects in Tibet.
Over the 18 years since the implementation of the Western Plan, more than 370000 college student volunteers have been recruited and dispatched to serve at the grass-roots level in more than 2000 counties (cities, districts and banners). The Western Plan has become an effective employment promotion project, talent mobility project, poverty alleviation project and practical education project, guiding groups of college students to organically combine their personal destiny with the development of the country, go to the places where the motherland and the people most need to be trained, grow their talents and make contributions, and strengthen their ideals and beliefs, temper their will and character in the hot grass-roots practice Increase ability.

Question 2: What is the implementation scale of the Western Plan in 2021?
The Western China Plan includes national projects and local projects (the only difference between the two is the financial supply, that is, the source of subsidies received by volunteers during their on-the-job service is different). In 2021, the implementation scale of the national project will be 20000 people (including 2608 recruited graduate student support groups of the 23rd China Youth Volunteer Poverty Alleviation Relay Plan and volunteers for deferred service), The implementation scale of local projects is also about 20000 people, and the specific contents can be subject to the detailed notice issued by the provincial project offices,

Question 3: What services do I mainly engage in after participating in the "Western Plan"?
According to the service content, the Western Plan is divided into seven special projects, namely, rural education, rural construction service, healthy countryside, youth work at the grass-roots level, rural social governance, Xinjiang service, and Tibet service.
Rural education: If you are a teacher training major, or you have a dream of supporting education in the west, you can engage in basic education such as teaching in primary and secondary schools in villages and towns and below. This program includes graduate student support group.
Serving rural construction: If you are a major in agriculture, forestry, resources and environment, information technology, e-commerce, etc., you can participate in agricultural science and technology and management, modern farmer cultivation, rural public infrastructure construction and other work in the grass-roots units of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, water conservancy, etc. at the township level and below.
Healthy villages: If you are a medical major, you can work in rural grass-roots medical and health institutions such as township hospitals, village clinics, and so on to engage in health and epidemic prevention, monitoring, management, diagnosis and treatment, and care for rural doctors.
Grass roots youth work: If you meet the selection criteria of the Western Plan and have served as the head of league organizations at all levels, you can engage in youth work such as youth league grass-roots organization construction, grass-roots party affairs, promoting employment and entrepreneurship, preventing crimes, and volunteering in the Communist Youth League at and below the county level, youth homes, and youth social organizations affiliated to the League.
Rural social governance: if you meet the selection criteria of the Western Plan, and your major is law, economy, Chinese, social work, administration, history, politics, sports and other related majors, you can focus on rural social stability, improvement of rural people's livelihood, rural elderly care and childcare Basic public services and public affairs in rural areas, such as rural residential environment governance, rural children care, rural culture, rural sports, safe villages, rural community governance, rural law popularization and publicity, were carried out.
Serving Xinjiang: If you want to devote your youth to the beautiful Xinjiang and meet the selection criteria of the Western Plan, you can focus on the economic and social development needs of Xinjiang and the Corps, and participate in rural education, rural construction services, healthy villages, grassroots youth work, rural social governance and other work in county and township grassroots units.
Serving Tibet: If you want to make contributions in the snow covered plateau and meet the selection criteria of the Western Plan, you can focus on the needs of Tibet's economic and social development, and participate in rural education, rural construction, healthy villages, youth work at the grass-roots level, rural social governance and other work at the county and township grassroots units.

Q4: Can I sign up for the Western Plan?
If you are a recent graduate (referring to graduating in 2021), your school of graduation is listed in the National List of Ordinary Colleges and Universities newly released by the Ministry of Education, and there is a Western Planning University Project Office (please consult the Youth League Committee of the university for details). No matter you are a junior college student, an undergraduate student or a graduate student, you can register to participate; If you are a graduate student, you can also enroll in the Western Plan.

Question 5: How can I sign up for the Western Plan?
Step 1: Log in to the official website of the Western Plan（ http://xibu.youth.cn ）, register, fill in the registration information, download and print the Registration Form in the Western Plan Registration System. (If your university is listed in the National List of Ordinary Colleges and Universities recently released by the Ministry of Education, but you can't find your university in the registration system, it means that your university has not become the project office of the Western Planning University, please consult the Youth League Committee of the university for details).
Step 2: The application form is reviewed and sealed by the Youth League Committee of the college or department, and submitted to the Project Office of the college (with the Youth League Committee on campus) for review and filing.
Step 3: After receiving your Registration Form, the University Project Office will review the authenticity of the information filled in online registration in a timely manner.
Step 4: After the review by the university project office, fill in the review comments in the western planning information system.
The application is successful when the project office of the university approves the application.

Question 6: I have registered in the Western Planning System but have not yet reviewed it. Where should I consult?
If you fail to see the approval after registration, you can consult the Project Office of the Western Planning University (set up the Youth League Committee) for details.

Question 7: What is the recruitment process of the Western Plan?
Step 1: After receiving the student registration form, the university project office (with the school Youth League Committee) should timely review the situation of the enrolled students, organize the written examination and interview of the enrolled students, and select the students with outstanding volunteerism, excellent written examination and interview results, and their majors meet the job requirements for job docking.
Step 2: After the post docking, you will participate in the unified physical examination organized by the university project office.
Step 3: After the physical examination, the school will publish the admission list and publicize it for 3 days. If there is no objection, the list shall be submitted to the Recruitment Provincial Project Office.
Step 4: In the last ten days of June, the National Project Office entrusted the provincial project offices to issue the Confirmation Notice to you. You can check your admission information in the information system. If you are selected into the Western Plan, the status will be displayed as "Admitted".
Step 5: In the first ten days of July, the National Project Office summarized and approved the list of new service volunteers.

Question 8: What are the physical requirements for participating in the Western Plan?
You need to be physically and mentally healthy, pass the physical examination program of the Western Plan, and meet the Physical Examination Standards for College Students Volunteer Service Volunteers of the Western Plan (click the website below to get the document http://xibu.youth.cn/xzzq/cyzl/202009/t20200903_12479304.htm ）。
If you want to serve Xinjiang and Tibet, you should also ensure that your physical condition is suitable for volunteering in Xinjiang and Tibet. Remember to ask your parents for advice!

Question 9: Which provinces will be served by the national projects of the 2021 Western Plan? When is the registration deadline? How to fill in the application form?
The national project service provinces of the Western Plan mainly target 12 western provinces (districts and cities), including Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang, and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, as well as some central provinces.
The deadline for application in 2021 is May 20. When filling in the application, you can choose up to three provinces (all are parallel volunteers) through the Western Plan Information System according to your own wishes, and at the same time, you can voluntarily choose whether to "obey the adjustment".

Question 10: Can I choose my own service position?
During the registration period, you only need to determine the intention of the service province and the special type of service. The specific service posts will be coordinated and allocated by the provincial project office according to your reported intentions and your professional expertise after you arrive at the service place.

Question 11: How about my treatment during my service?
If you are admitted as a volunteer for the national project of the Western Plan, the central finance will grant a subsidy (including work and living subsidies, social security, etc.) of 30000 yuan per person per year in the western region (40000 yuan per person per year in the four southern Xinjiang prefectures and Tibet) and 24000 yuan per person per year in the central region, and allocate it to the provincial financial department through the general transfer payment system settlement. Local governments at all levels shall make overall plans for the central government's subsidy funds and their own financial resources, pay you work and life subsidies in full on a monthly basis, and bear the part of your social insurance unit's contribution (the part paid by individuals shall be withheld from the volunteer's work and life subsidies). The provincial project office will purchase commercial insurance for you (including the volunteers of the graduate volunteer education group), such as serious diseases, personal accidents, etc. according to the relevant requirements of the national project office.
If you are admitted as a volunteer for the local project of the Western Plan, the local finance department will give you corresponding subsidies according to the relevant local standards. For details, please consult the provincial project offices.

Question 12: How long is my service period?
Your service period is flexible. The service period is 1-3 years, and the service agreement is signed once a year. If you pass the assessment after the expiration of your service in that year, you can apply to the project office of the service county for extension of service according to your own wishes in about March of the next year.

Question 13: What training will I have before going on duty? I have never been to the west. I wonder if I can be competent for service work. What should I do?
After you report to each service province, each service provincial capital will organize centralized training, mainly including training on volunteer service concept, safety and health education, management system specification, local basic information, team spirit, etc. After the centralized training is completed and arrives at the service county, the service county will organize pre job training in terms of county conditions, rural customs, folk customs, etc; Organize volunteers serving in primary and secondary schools to participate in pre job teaching and training before the start of school, as well as practice in local education departments, lesson preparation, home visits, etc. The project office and service unit of your service county will provide you with the necessary working and living conditions and be responsible for daily management. I believe that after a series of formal training, you will be able to grow up quickly!

Question 14: When do I attend the pre job training?
July 20-31 is usually the time for volunteers to report for duty and train. You need to take the Confirmation Notice, graduation certificate and your ID card to the service province (district, city) organized by the Recruitment Provincial Project Office, and participate in the centralized training organized by the Service Provincial Project Office. The training time is not less than 4 days.

Question 15: What procedures should I go through after arriving at the service place?
After you arrive at the service place after the training, you should confirm and improve the relevant service information in the western planning information system, and the county level project office where the service place is located should complete the review.

Q16: Can I adjust the service location during my service?
According to the relevant provisions of the Administrative Measures for College Students Volunteer Service for the Western Plan Volunteers, the western plan volunteers should, in principle, serve in accordance with the unit signed at the time of recruitment. However, during the service period, if your position arrangement is unreasonable, it can be adjusted within the scope of the county after your application and the consent of the service county project office.
If you are really not suitable for working and living in the local area due to health, dialect, lifestyle and other reasons, the project office of the service county agrees and, on the basis of asking for my opinions, reports to the project office of the service province for approval, and can adjust the service location within the province (district, city).
In principle, service posts shall not be adjusted across provinces. If you are approved to adjust the service position, you need to complete the information update in time when you arrive at the new service place to protect your rights and interests.

Question 17: How can I prove my identity?
When you are serving the provincial (district, city) project office for centralized training, you will receive a uniformly issued "Western Plan Service Card" (the service card is an important certificate for volunteers to enjoy relevant policies upon expiration of service, which is uniformly formatted and coded by the National Project Office). When your service period expires and you pass the assessment, your service certificate will come into effect with the official seal of the county (city, district, flag) project office.

Question 18: What measures have been taken to help me achieve employment after the service?
Before your service expires, the Western Planning National Project Office will notify each service place to do a good job of employment services in the form of a document, and promote the implementation of policies on the recruitment of civil servants, recruitment of enterprises and institutions, length of service calculation, self entrepreneurship, tuition compensation and student loan compensation, migration of household registration files, etc. The service county project office provides you with employment information through various channels and platforms, and actively carries out vocational skills training and career planning guidance. The project offices of colleges and universities will also include the unemployed volunteers who have completed their service into the overall arrangement of the employment of graduates in the current year. Each service place will also carry out special recruitment fairs and promotion meetings for regional western planning talents according to the situation.

Q19: Is there any special incubator or venture fund support for the Western Plan volunteers to start their own businesses?
According to the Notice on Overall Implementation of Guiding College Graduates to Work in Rural Grass roots Service Projects (RSBF [2009] No. 42), graduates who have passed the assessment after their service period and started their own businesses enjoy various preferential policies specified in the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Strengthening the Employment of Graduates from Ordinary Colleges and Universities, The talent service institutions and public employment service institutions affiliated to the Human Resources and Social Security Department provide free entrepreneurial guidance, employment recommendation and other public services. The specific preferential policies can refer to the provisions of the above documents: college graduates who meet the conditions for self-employed business are exempt from administrative fees, and college graduates who are self-employed and registered as unemployed in the local public employment service institutions can apply for a small amount of guaranteed loans of no more than 50000 yuan if their self raised funds are insufficient; In case of partnership and organization for employment, the loan scale can be appropriately expanded according to regulations; Those who engage in low profit projects stipulated by the local government can enjoy discount interest support according to regulations. If college graduates with entrepreneurial intention participate in entrepreneurship training, they will be given vocational training subsidies according to regulations. We will strengthen entrepreneurial guidance services for college graduates, and provide "one-stop" services such as policy consultation, project development, entrepreneurial training, entrepreneurial incubation, microfinance, opening guidance, and tracking guidance. All regions should build and improve a batch of college students' entrepreneurship parks and entrepreneurship incubation bases with small investment and quick results, and provide relevant policy support.

Question 20: What preferential policies can I enjoy for postgraduate entrance examination?
If you have served for more than 2 years and apply for a master's degree within 3 years after the expiration of your service, 10 points will be added to the total score of the preliminary examination. Priority will be given to admission under the same conditions. After the preliminary examination results of the postgraduate examination are released, you need to apply for extra points to the postgraduate enrollment department of the university applying for the examination with the ID card, service card, service appraisal form and other supporting materials. The graduate enrollment departments of relevant colleges and universities need to log on the system of the Ministry of Education and download the list of volunteers for the Western Plan to gain points for postgraduate entrance examination. As long as you are in the list, you can enjoy the policy of gaining points. After the points are added, if you encounter adjustment problems, you need to ask the graduate enrollment department of the original university to apply to the staff of the research recruitment management platform of the Ministry of Education, and manually enter your information into the graduate examination adjustment system.

Question 21: What preferential policies can I enjoy for civil service examination?
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Notice on Overall Implementation of Guiding College Graduates to Work in Rural Grass roots Service Projects (RSBF [2009] No. 42), all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government employ civil servants in the party and government organs at or above the prefecture (city) level, adhere to the principle of "all applicants must take the exam", and specify the proportion of employees with more than two years of grass-roots work experience, County and township authorities should set up certain posts to recruit college students for special projects such as working in villages. Graduates of special projects who have passed the assessment after their service expires will enjoy the preferential policies for civil servants employed by the Party and government organs at or above the prefecture (city) level in all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government. As far as the actual situation is concerned, as long as you have completed 2 years of service and passed the examination, you can enjoy the relevant preferential policies for the national civil servant examination. Please refer to the local recruitment announcement for details.

Question 22: Do I still have the status of a new graduate after my service expires?
According to the spirit of the Notice of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council on Printing and Distributing Opinions on Guiding and Encouraging College Graduates to Work at the Grassroots Level and other relevant documents, as long as you have no work experience before participating in the Western Plan Project, and within two years after the expiration of your service and passing the assessment (the graduate student teaching support group volunteers are counted from the time of graduate graduation), In terms of participating in the examination (recruitment) of government institutions, attracting employment by various enterprises, starting their own businesses, settling down, entering higher education, etc., they can equally enjoy the relevant policies of new college graduates.

Q23: Do I calculate the length of service during my service?
The Notice on the Implementation of the Western Plan of Volunteer Service for College Students (ZYLF [2003] No. 26) stipulates that the length of service shall be calculated during the service period. The Notice on Overall Implementation of Guiding College Graduates to Work in Rural Grass roots Service Projects (RSBF [2009] No. 42) stipulates that the length of service of graduates of specialized colleges and universities to rural grass roots shall be calculated. In the implementation plan of the Western Plan, it is also specified that if the volunteers have passed the assessment after their service expires, the service period and length of service shall be calculated according to the actual service years (the time of participation in the work shall be calculated from the date of their registration at the grass-roots level), which shall be reflected in the service certificate and service appraisal form.

Question 24: Can I apply for tuition fees of college graduates and national student loans?
According to the relevant provisions of the Notice on Printing and Distributing the Interim Measures for Tuition Fees of University Graduates and Compensation of National Student Loans (CJ [2009] No. 15), since 2009, full-time undergraduate and junior college students (including higher vocational students), graduate students The second bachelor's degree fresh graduates who participate in the Western Plan will be employed in grass-roots units in the central and western regions and hard and remote areas, and the corresponding tuition fees and student loan compensation will be implemented if the service period is more than three years (including three years). Those who sign the contract for the first time for one year and then extend the service period to three years will not enjoy the tuition fee and student loan compensation policy. Eligible new volunteers should apply to relevant institutions such as the Student Management and Funding Center of their graduated universities when going through the formalities for leaving the university (before December of the same year for the second time). Local colleges and universities are based on the relevant policies issued by the province.

Question 25: What are the differences between the local projects of the Western Plan and the national projects?
The local projects of the Western Plan are an important part of the Western Plan. The local projects are organized and implemented according to the operation mode and work requirements of the national projects. The required funds are borne by the local government, and the main responsibility is the provincial (district, city) project office. Consult the provincial project offices for the specific situation of local projects.

Q26: I am a local project volunteer. Can I enjoy the preferential policies for national project volunteers?
According to relevant documents, local project volunteers enjoy the same policy treatment as national projects in terms of school entrance, employment, length of service calculation, etc.