143 college students start their summer internships in the People’s Government of Shaanxi Province

On the morning of July 16th, 143 college students kicked off the 2018 summer internships in the People’s Government of Shaanxi Province. The students come from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and other universities as well as foreign students from countries along the Belt and Road. They would start a 6-week period of internship in 44 departments of the People’s Government of Shaanxi Province.

Before the induction meeting, these students participated in the activity that invited the citizen representatives to the provincial government. They visited the pools for gathering and recycling the rainwater, the Xi’an Incident Command Center, the Lu Xun Library, the Gifts and Souvenirs Exhibition Room, the Exhibition Room of the Historical Evolution of the People’s Government of Shaanxi Province and the Yellow Building Conference Room, to review Shaanxi’s history and experience its evolution and development.

At the meeting, the persons respectively in charge of the General Office of the Shaanxi Provincial Government, the Development and Reform Commission of Shaanxi Province and the Government Offices Administration of Shaanxi Province explained to them the special topics such as the current situation of Shaanxi Province, the processing of official documents, the basic procedures for organizing meetings, official etiquette and the knowledge about protecting secrecy.

The internship of college students in the government offices has been a regular occurrence for the governments at all levels in Shaanxi. Since the summer of 2012, the same internships have been launched 13 times, with over 1,400 college students serving as interns in the departments of the People’s Government of Shaanxi Province and over 20,000 college students in the government offices at municipal and county level as well as in the companies.