2007年北京市將公開招聘3000名應屆高校畢業生當村官兒，計劃錄用人數比去年增加了1000人。根據規定，被聘任的高校本科畢業生，第一年平均每人每月工資2000元，第二年平均每人每月2500元，第三年平均每人每月3000元。據報道，去年輸送的一批大學生村官受到了農民的普遍歡迎，并為農村的領導班子注入了一股新鮮血液，由此北京市今年進一步擴大了村官招聘的數量。

Wang Lina, who graduated from Beijing Union University, returned to Alma Mater to promote the organic strawberries.

The Beijing municipal government has set out to recruit thousands of university graduates to work as junior officials in rural areas to both improve rural administration and ease the city's employment problems 

The government plans to recruit 3,000 university graduates this year, 1,000 more than last year, to work as assistants to village heads or Party secretaries in suburban areas.

People interested in jobs in Beijing's rural villages and townships can submit applications to the Beijing Municipal Personnel Bureau or online at www.bjbys.com from February 1 through March 15.

"We hope university graduates will seize this opportunity to use their knowledge in rural villages and to start their careers," Sun Zhenyu, deputy director of Beijing Personnel Bureau, told Xinhua News Agency.

Government promise

The municipal government has promised successful candidates a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan ($250) in the first year, 2,500 yuan ($320) the second year and 3,000 yuan ($385) the third year,providedtheir performance isup to the required standards, Sun said.

Beijing first introduced its "go to the countryside" employment program last year. Some 2,000 university graduates found grassroots-level jobs in the countryside last year.

Wang Lina, who graduated from Beijing Union University last year, was part of the first batch of graduates to find work in the city's countryside.

After majoring in industrial and commercial administration, Wang served as the assistant to the village head of Ertiaojie Village in suburban Beijing's Pinggu District.

For one project, Wang contacted people at the Beijing Academy of Agricultural Sciences and arranged for the local farmers to receive training in strawberry planting.

Her efforts paid off. The village reaped a plentiful harvest oforganic strawberriesearlier this year.

Nationwide, about 150,000 university graduates found employment in rural areas last year, according to figures provided by the Ministry of Education.

The ministry predicts that 4.95 million students will graduate from institutions of higher learning across the country this year, 820,000 more than last year.

About 1.4 million of them are unlikely to find jobs when they graduate.

200,000 graduates

In Beijing, a record 200,000 people are expected to graduate from university this year, 20,000 more than last year. Less than half of them are expected to be offered jobs, according to the personnel bureau.

The central government issued a circular in July 2005, calling on university graduates to seek jobs at thegrassroots levelso as to reverse the shortage of professionals in rural areas and to ease unemployment in cities.

（China Daily）

Vocabulary:

provided：if（假設，如果）

up to the required standards：符合標準

organic strawberries：有機草莓

grassroots level：基層

（英語點津陳蓓編輯）