Over the past years, the Central Committee of Communist Youth League of China has actively involved in volunteering service works. Great accomplishments achieved in promoting the development of volunteering service.

I. Participate actively in poverty elimination

　　The Youth Volunteers Relay Plan for Poverty Elimination has been carried out since 1996 in cooperation with the Central Office for Moral Building of CCCPC, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Personnel and the Office for Western Region Development of the State Council. Young volunteers have been organized to go to poor areas to provide an at least two-year service in basic education, health care, the extension of agriculture technology and many others fields. The young volunteers are recruited among the general public and they relay the process so as to sustain this effort. Over the past five years, about 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China have implemented this plan. Among the 200 thousand volunteers registered, 6810 were selected to aid as many as 160 poor counties. The beneficiary regions have been extended to the 12 provinces, districts, and cities in the western part of China. The assistance mainly involving mainly the fields of teaching, medicine and health, the assistance was carried out in the following patterns: transprovincial cooperation and developed areas supporting less developed areas in the same province. Currently, 2310 volunteers in education and 300 medical volunteers have completed their service. The newly recruited 3,200 volunteers would be dispatched very soon to serve in the poverty-stricken areas in the Midwest. Besides, nearly 1 million on-holiday college students have launched a variety of short-term projects, popularizing knowledge in the fields of culture, science and technology and hygiene, etc., in the poor countryside.

II. Participate actively in community development

　　With the support from the Central Office of Moral Building of CCCPC and Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Youth Volunteers Community Development Plan was carried out by CCCYL. This involves mainly three aspects: first, "one helps one" youth volunteering service was initiated from early 1994. Acting as go-betweens, many young volunteer's organizations help each young volunteer or young volunteer's service team identity a poverty-stricken family to provide them with regular service. So far, there have been more than 2.5 million "one-helps one" teams. Second, services for community development have been started by college and middle school students' volunteers since 1996. Making use of their spare time, college and middle school students come deep into the community to provide the local residents with various professional services free of charge. Many university students also take some positions in the neighborhood committees, propagandizing education, science and technology, and culture for the local residents. Third, Young Volunteers' Community Service Stations were set up in 1995, and now there are as many as 24,000 service stations in the whole country, which are basic organizations for community youth volunteers, responsible for organizing and coordinating volunteer service activities at grass roots level.

III. Participate actively in environment protection

　　The Youth Volunteer's Green Action Plan - Save the Mother River has been implemented by CCCYL and together with the State Administration of Environment Protection. With "work, exchange and study" as its theme, this plan was Initiated in June 1999. Setting up many green action bases, this action plan organized young volunteers to carry out some environmental protection service, such as planting trees, fathering deserts, decontaminating polluted water, and removing white rubbish. At present, the environmental protection projects in Fengning of Hebei and Dalinoer of Inner-Mongol. Other projects will also be carried in execution successively in Wanjiazhai of Shanxi Province, Guang'an - Deng Xiaoping's former residence in Sichuan Province, Nanxijiang and Taizhou of Zhejiang Province, Yanji of Jilin Province. In addition, many volunteering service actions for environmental protection such as planting trees, removing illegal posters and retrieving used battery, etc. were widely carried out.

IV. Providing volunteer service actively for large-scale social activities

　　In recent years, millions of Chinese youth volunteers have been providing service of high quality for the fourth World Women Conference, Shanghai Fortune Forum annual meeting, Kunming World Horticulture Fair, and APEC meeting. Now, more than 40,000 Rainbow Volunteers are serving the 21st Universiade. With China's successful bid for the 2008 Olympic, ten thousands of volunteers will participate in serving the Olympic Games in the next few years.

V. Develop extensively public service.

　　Young volunteers often visit service bases such as homes for the aged, welfare homes, orphan asylums, recovery centers, etc., providing the aged, orphans, paralyzed, with living attendance, medical treatment and health protection, entertainment, etc. They often go to communities to repair household electrical appliances, propagandize law information, give training courses on network, and provide entertainment performance. You can also find many young volunteering narrators in memorials, museums, exhibition centers and science and technology centers. Besides, in facing great disasters such as flood, earthquake, young volunteers play the role of commando in helping the displaced people rebuild their homes.

VI. Upgrading the international exchange on volunteering service.

　　Over the past years, China Youth Volunteers Association has developed good relationship with some international and regional volunteer organizations like the Coordinating Commission of International Volunteer Services and the European Volunteers Union, etc. Thousands of people have been sent to Europe and the South- East Asian countries for study tour and participation in volunteer service events. At the same time, volunteers from more than 10 countries like Japan, Singapore and Korea have been mobilized to come to China to participate in activities such as environmental control, poverty alleviation and community development. International exchanges of volunteering services have become an important channel for international cooperation.

VII. Forming the management network of volunteering service

　　In order to promote the development of youth volunteer service in China, China Youth Volunteers Association was founded officially on Dec. 5, 1994, which is the first nationwide public organization engaged wholly in volunteering service in China. Later, 35 provincial associations were set up successively.

VIII. Upgrading the legislation progress of volunteering service

　　The People's Congress in Guangdong and Nanjing carried through regulations on youth volunteering service. Shandong, Fujian, Henan, etc. have also taken volunteering service into legislation programming schedule. The People's Congress in 5 provinces and 8 cities as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Hunan, Iner Mongolia, Nanjing , Shijiazhuang, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Shenyang, Shantou, Jinan and Guangzhou passed though special resolution, in which legal protection has been provided to those middle school students aged from 16 to 18 to engage in volunteer services. All this have promoted the legislation progress for China's volunteering service.

　　Following such a train of thought as "government supporting, Volunteers undertaking and operation socialized ", China is strengthening its volunteer service project construction, organizational building and volunteering team construction, and upgrading the great cause of volunteering service in the new century.