The Current Situation Of The Chinese Volunteer Service And The Analysis Of Its Countermeasures

Voluntary service is a kind of organizational and service behavior of non-governmental system, which refers to non-government organizations (NGOs) and individual make use of knowledge, skills, physical power and wealth, by all various of service actions, to realize and embody their dedication to the social undertaking, or to carry out and complete offering the service and safeguard to the groups or individuals. who are helpless. The popularization of the voluntary service and volunteer spirit, which not only provides the important human resources for NGOs' development , but also fundamentally improves the human being movements and drives the human being society civilization Forward. With the constant emergence of NGOs in China, it is the very important subject for us how to develop the voluntary service effectively under the modern situation.In the past several decades, China's voluntary service has achieved a great deal in the fields of youth voluntary service, community volunteer service, grass groups volunteer service and international volunteer service so on. A textbook published in 1994 about volunteers pointed out that there were over 52% of volunteers among American people, whereas, only more than 80 million Chinese volunteers in 2002, about 7% of the total population of China which was currently more 3 times than the United States of America's in 2002. From above all it can be seen that there is a lot of development space for the voluntary service in China, but it confronts with the restraint factor. The problems existing in the field of the voluntary service are as follows: insufficiency of social cognition, deficiency of matter backing seriously, insufficiency of autonomous space inside and unstable work team. There are some reasons causing those problems: ambiguity of the relation between volunteers and the served people, lags of law about the voluntary service, stronger administrative dominant power, and the vacancy of developing and stimulating of human resources.Governments, enterprises and NGOs in European and American countries have become three main factors propping up social development, however, NGOs and volunteers' cause is an important factor that makes up part of the world. The article refers the development condition of the voluntary service in European and American countries, which leads to summary for enlightenment of our voluntary service as follows: having complete nongovernmental quality of NGO, possessing sufficient financial resources, building strict rules and regulations, attaching importance to an educational input. Based on policy request, theory rationale and drawing lessons from abroad so on, it has attempted to find out improving the countermeasures of our voluntary service for the current situation. We should intensify the cognition of voluntary service, take full advantage of administration resources, perfect management mechanism of voluntary service, and improve stimulating mechanism. The text also aims to seek out suggestions from experts and academicians in the aspect of voluntary service, to arouse people to put their study further into this field, and drive China's voluntary service to develop forward specialization and profession constantly.