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China to Send Overseas More Field Service Volunteers

China will send more volunteers abroad to serve in more than 10 countries next year, inspired by the success of a May 2002 pilot project, according to Wednesday's China Youth Daily.

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China will send more volunteers abroad to serve in more than 10 countries next year, inspired by the success of a May 2002 pilot project, according to Wednesday's China Youth Daily.

China dispatched five volunteers, selected from over 1,000 domestic candidates, to Laos on May 22, as part of a large overseas program run jointly by the Chinese Communist Youth League's (CCYL) Central Committee and the China Association of Youth Volunteers.

The five volunteers are working in a hospital in Vientiane, and in a youth development center providing medical services and also training in Chinese, English and computer skills. They are scheduled to return in November this year, the newspaper reports.

The CCYL plans to expand the program and send more volunteers to over 10 nations, including Myanmar, next year.

The program assigns capable young volunteers through open recruitment and selection processes and, on the basis of reciprocity and equality, foreign volunteers will also come to work in certain less-developed regions of China, with a focus on the vast northwestern areas, said CCYL officials.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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