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CCTV:College graduate in village making a difference
大学生最难就业年 毕业季你的方向在哪?
The Ministry of Education says the country’s college graduates will reach a record high of nearly 7 million this year. As China’s economy slows down and undergoes restructuring, many enterprises are recruiting lesser than before.
While most college graduates have found it hard to find satisfying jobs in big cities, some have returned to work in rural areas. Since China initiated the College Graduate Village Official plan in 2008, more than 210,000 college graduates had begun working as village officials by 2011.
Qingxu County in Taiyuan, the capital city of north China's Shanxi Province, has been famous for grape planting in China for thousands of years. Thanks to its special geological conditions, grapes in Qingxu County have a diverse range and taste very sweet. They are a big draw for tourists who love to come and pick them and taste them.
27- year-old Ren Jianyun is the one who has built up the grape picking projects. He is a college graduate from the North University of China in Shanxi province, and majored in Measurement and Control Technology in 2009. In his graduating year, he received an offer from a state owned company in south China. But Ren Jianyun chose to work as a village official instead.
Ren said, "When I had just entered college, I bet my roommates that all of us would move to big cities in the future. But after we graduated, I was the only one who stayed here while my friends all went to bigger places like Beijing and Jiangsu."
Qingxu County is actually Ren Jianyun's hometown. He applied for the job of a village official under the College Graduate Village official plan. It was a blind shot, but he made it.
Ren said, "At that time, I thought the college graduate village official plan was something new and the country had initiated many related favorable policies. So I felt that this might be an opportunity for me to build a career and help the villagers get rich."
Ren Jianyun was running errands every day when he first came to the county, as village head assistant. Two years later, he was elected the village head for his hard work. Last year he began to build up grape picking projects for tourists. He even promoted the business online in some major group-buying websites in China. The successful business model in 2012 turned over more than one million Yuan in profits.
He said, "I think college students should first work at the grass roots level. Working at the grass root level can make you down to earth, which will contribute to your future career."
But there are some challenges in his job. Ren Jianyun feels the hardest thing is to change people’s old ideas about making money. It’s also hard to get enough capital. But Ren Jianyun still feels confident that he can come up with more business models.
To the millions of students who will graduate from college this year, Ren Jianyun advises that no matter what kind of job you do, no matter how menial the work, if you take it seriously, your hard work will pay off.
