Recently, Miss Zhou Yingxue, whose major is industrial and commercial management, won the title of Self-improvement Star among Chinese College Students in 2019, supported by the Communist Youth League Central Committee and the National Union of Students. At the same time, she won the Chinese university students New Oriental self-improvement scholarship.
“Go to the West, Work in the grass-roots level, and Serve for those who need help most”. Responding to this call-in summer 2019, Miss Zhou decided to participate in the Western Plan, to apply her knowledge learned in college to serve for the frontier, and to dedicate for society. So that she could let her youth shine in the most needed places in China. During the period of service in the West, Miss Zhou also won the title of outstanding volunteer for the Western Program in Tibet.
At the foot of Mount Qomolangama, Miss Zhou began her volunteer life. Because her major is engineering management, she was assigned to the Economic Construction Section of the Finance Bureau in Rikaze, and her daily work was mainly about basic infrastructure projects, including handing out work plans, system entry, reporting the results to the higher level office. In order to better adapt to the work and better enrich her own capabilities, she often worked late into the night, trying to be familiar with her work as quick as possible.
In addition to daily work, Miss Zhou’s favorite hobby in Rikaze was to be a volunteer for various activities. In 2019, while the city of Rikaze was promoting the work of six cities to build together, Miss Zhou actively signed up for voluntary service. For example, she joined the work of keeping traffic order at intersections, participated in railway station volunteer service, carried out the street cleaning work, and etc. During the emergent period caused by COVID-19 in spring 2020, Miss Zhou volunteered to work in the hotels specially prepared for quarantine people, registering people who entered and left the hotel. Although the procedures were cumbersome, she took each and every detail seriously. She said, “All the things relating to the COVID-19 matter, because perhaps a little negligence will lead to terrible results.” Before leaving Rikaze, Miss Zhou went to Junior High School of Anren County in Rikaze City and shared stationery and other supplies to the children in the pastoral area. With other volunteers for the West Plan from Shanghai and the staff of the Health and Health Committee of Rikaze and the Municipal Women's And Social Security Institute, Miss Zhou visited the children in the welfare home.
In a year of volunteer work in the west, Miss Zhou learned a lot, changed her role and adapted to the transformation from school to society, from a student to a professional. Looking back on the whole year's work in 2019, she said: A year is too short to help more people. However, a year is long enough to build up the mansion of love with those in Rikaze. In the future, I will continue to hold the voluntary service spirit of dedication, love, mutual assistance, and progress to encourage myself to carry forward the volunteer spirit to fulfill my obligations and contributions! ”