Recently, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education issued the list of Jiangsu Provincial College Students’ Employment and Entrepreneurship “Figure of the Year” Award. Our school’s 2012 graduate Qi Yunsheng, an outstanding model of “College Students’ Grass-roots Employment”, won the nomination award of College Students’ Employment and Entrepreneurship “Figure of the Year” in Jiangsu Province. Colleges and universities in the province recommended more than 200 typical representatives of employment and entrepreneurship. After two rounds of expert evaluation, the final selection presented 10 Employment and Entrepreneurship “Figures of the Year” and 10 nomination awards.

Over the past few years, our school has been attaching great importance to the employment and entrepreneurship of graduates, constantly strengthening students’ career planning and employment and entrepreneurship education, guides the graduates to cultivate a correct outlook on life, world, values and career, and paying attention to giving full play to the demonstration effect of outstanding models. Among the graduates of 2020, the proportion of grass-roots employment, such as the Western Plan, the Northern Jiangsu Plan and the enlistment into the army, has increased by 46.15% compared with the previous year. A group of vigorous HYIT graduates responded positively to the call of the state and went to the places where the motherland and the people needed them most.

Related links: Qi Yunsheng, an HYIT Electrical Engineering and Automation major，class of 2012, a post-90 “most beautiful university graduate” in Jiangsu, was promoted to the Xiaowan Village Party branch secretary in April 2019 because of his two consecutive years of excellent poverty-alleviation work. With his strong devotion and unyielding spirits, he took root at the grass-roots level, led the masses to fight against poverty, opened up family farms, and developed comprehensive rice and shrimp cultivation. By 2017, three years after Qi Yunsheng had been selected to serve as poverty alleviation secretary in Xiaowan Village, he had successfully helped the people of Xiaowan Village to get rid of poverty and become rich, advance to a well-off society, and eventually put on a new look for Xiaowan Village.