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Working at the grassroots 从大学生到公务员 挑战与成长同在 Online applications for the civil service examination were opened on October 15. In two days more than 50,000 applicants nationwide had entered hoping to grab an “iron rice bowl”. The number of civil service vacancies, at about 18,000, is believed to be the biggest in history, according to the Beijing Morning Post. And 73 percent of them are frontline jobs, in city-level units or below. Two thirds of these posts are open to fresh college grads. 21st Century reporter Xu Jingxi interviewed three grads who are now civil servants at the frontline. Take a look at the challenges they have met at work and what they have learned from the experiences. Yu Liangde Tax bureau at the district level, Harbin Dai Shaoshuai Huangdao Customs，Qingdao Liang Simin, 24Subdistrict office, Shenzhen Yu Liangde, 24Tax bureau at the district level, Harbin A job offer in the civil service is not a ticket for a gravy train.Yu had expected that he could get off work on time before he took the job. But it has turned out that he often sacrifices lunchtimes for work. It’s not appropriate to leave queues of taxpayers and go for lunch. Besides, taxpayers are usually surly-looking after waiting for a long time. Yu said: “As a civil servant, I have to keep a smile on my face at all times.”At the front line, the office usually has a complex division of labor, according to Yu. For example, he has been giving invoices to taxpayers and taking them back for 18 months. Yu admitted that it could be monotonous, but it was still challenging.“The civil service examination is mainly about applicants’ general qualities. It doesn’t involve much assessment on specific skills at work,” said Yu.The grad majoring in law found that he hadn’t probed deep enough into tax laws. He also studies finance and accounting in his spare time. Dai Shaoshuai, 25Huangdao Customs, Qingdao Heavy trucks come and go on the wharf. The noise and exhaust can make Dai dizzy. To exami