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Under the joint work of the CYL Central Committee and the Ministry of Education, a program called the Graduate Volunteers was initiated and organized to alleviate the teaching faculty insufficiency while at the same time improve the education quality at a lower level by recruiting promising and outstanding university students before sending them to operate on the local education system. As it was lead by the official authority yet operated on cruxes of the local education system, the Graduate Volunteers Program can be in a way regarded as the self-completion of the national education system. This program has enjoyed heated publicity by the press and wide recognition from the public. However thirty years after its implementation little academic attention or credit has been given to it ever.This paper is based on the experience of five students who are now volunteering in the ninth middle school of ZhunGeer. it starts with the origin of this program to its status quo followed by the analysis of the current situation of the voluntary teaching program in the ninth middle school as well as the ZhunGeer educational system to provide the reader with a better understanding of the background information such as the teaching and living environment of the five volunteers. After that, this paper attempts to employ the descriptive method of ethnography writing to present the status quo of the voluntary teaching program in order to evaluate the accomplishment and remaining problems of this program more properly meanwhile reflecting upon the voluntary teaching mechanism itself. A separate chapter is devoted to the detailed description of "a day of the volunteer". By dissecting several aspects and problems of the voluntary teaching proce this paper aims to display not only dofferent perceptions of the volunteers, local students together with the faculty members but also opinions given by the local education bureau officers and CYL staff on voluntary teaching meanwhile trying to provide a photographic descriptionn of the operational process and the overall condition of the Graduate Volunteers program.