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Smiling young people the new face of community work
By Cha Junyan and Pan Zheng |
June 27, 2009, Saturday
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RECENTLY all the Minhang neighborhood committees prepared for elections for new leaders.
In 2007, the Jiangchuan Road Subdistrict employed 39 college graduates and made long-term plans for their future. This time, all of them will be very competitive candidates for the neighborhood committee leaders.
Gao Lei is one of them. However, he really doesn't look like a traditional neighborhood committee worker -- he wears a sports shirt, has a youthful face and is well-muscled. After he graduated from the University of Hanover, majoring in athletic physiology in 2007, he came back and became a neighborhood committee worker.
At first, some of his classmates didn't understand this: "Is your job just eating melon seeds with old ladies everyday?"
Gao doesn't get angry at these comments. He has decided to change the common perception of committee workers with his work.
The idea of becoming a committee worker first occurred to Gao when he was helped by a local community in Germany.
After coming back, he wants to give the same affection he received in Germany to others. In the past two years, he has worked in three committees.
"Most of these visitors are really facing difficulties. So when I deal with their requests, I remember that patience is a virtue," He says.
Gao is not the only one. Chen Chen, 24, has just worked in the neighborhood committee for about one year. However, when she entered the committee, her first task was to be in charge of the family planning for the area. For a girl who just graduated from college, it was not an easy job.
"But my supervisor told me that it was a huge responsibility. It may ruin the whole year's efforts if I didn't work well," Chen says. "Now I'm pretty familiar with the policy and knowledge involved. Probably they're not available in businesses."
One year's work experience at a grassroots level really improved her patience. "It's a job with a good future. I'll not stop here."
Yang Cuixia, who also began her committee servant career in 2007, is now the vice Party secretary general of the Anning No.1 Neighborhood Committee. With great ability and diligence, she's highly appreciated by her colleagues.
Actually, the Jiangchuan Road Neighborhood Committee pays a lot of attention to these newcomer graduates. It believes it has the responsibility to plan their future and arranges regular training courses for them.
"The management mechanism is as good as that of businesses. We can see good prospects for our future." Yang says.
Recently the committee held an examination and accepted 25 graduates to serve as interns in the community.
More college graduates will be encouraged to work and serve in committees. Minhang left 470 positions for college graduates in neighborhood committees.
In 2007, the Jiangchuan Road Subdistrict employed 39 college graduates and made long-term plans for their future. This time, all of them will be very competitive candidates for the neighborhood committee leaders.
Gao Lei is one of them. However, he really doesn't look like a traditional neighborhood committee worker -- he wears a sports shirt, has a youthful face and is well-muscled. After he graduated from the University of Hanover, majoring in athletic physiology in 2007, he came back and became a neighborhood committee worker.
At first, some of his classmates didn't understand this: "Is your job just eating melon seeds with old ladies everyday?"
Gao doesn't get angry at these comments. He has decided to change the common perception of committee workers with his work.
The idea of becoming a committee worker first occurred to Gao when he was helped by a local community in Germany.
After coming back, he wants to give the same affection he received in Germany to others. In the past two years, he has worked in three committees.
"Most of these visitors are really facing difficulties. So when I deal with their requests, I remember that patience is a virtue," He says.
Gao is not the only one. Chen Chen, 24, has just worked in the neighborhood committee for about one year. However, when she entered the committee, her first task was to be in charge of the family planning for the area. For a girl who just graduated from college, it was not an easy job.
"But my supervisor told me that it was a huge responsibility. It may ruin the whole year's efforts if I didn't work well," Chen says. "Now I'm pretty familiar with the policy and knowledge involved. Probably they're not available in businesses."
One year's work experience at a grassroots level really improved her patience. "It's a job with a good future. I'll not stop here."
Yang Cuixia, who also began her committee servant career in 2007, is now the vice Party secretary general of the Anning No.1 Neighborhood Committee. With great ability and diligence, she's highly appreciated by her colleagues.
Actually, the Jiangchuan Road Neighborhood Committee pays a lot of attention to these newcomer graduates. It believes it has the responsibility to plan their future and arranges regular training courses for them.
"The management mechanism is as good as that of businesses. We can see good prospects for our future." Yang says.
Recently the committee held an examination and accepted 25 graduates to serve as interns in the community.
More college graduates will be encouraged to work and serve in committees. Minhang left 470 positions for college graduates in neighborhood committees.
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