I have signed a three-year contract, serving as a village official.
Liu Yuchen, 25, a village official in Beijing's Daxing district, has even considered removing the village experience from his resume.
In the Guangdong city of Dongguan, two United Kingdom-educated returnees have sat with 23 applicants to take a recent village official exam.
In their opinion, if college students work as a village official, they can't apply their professional knowledge that they learn in school.
Wu Qixiu, Peking University's first "village official," was appointed mayor of Xiangtan, Hunan by the 13th Xiangtan Municipal People's Congress Tuesday.