"Inhale, exhale, hold on..." Recently, at 8 o'clock every night, the online class of Chen Burong, a five-year-old volunteer in Lijin County, will start on time. This is her fifth year of voluntary teaching of cucurbit.  Chen Burong is not only the "counselor" of the cucurbit flute class of Lijin County Senior Citizens University, but also the "calabash king" of the children in the experimental first, kindergarten and sophomore classes.

The children who have attended Chen Burong's class affectionately call her "The Gourd King", and she calls them "the Gourd Baby". At first, when Lijin County Experimental First Kindergarten planned to open a cucurbit flute interest class, the class was not started due to the lack of professional cucurbit flute teachers. After learning about this situation, Chen Burong, who was at the tenth level of cucurbit flute, took the initiative to ask Ying to teach in the kindergarten voluntarily. For a time, the characteristic class of Hulusi became the "insufficient music class" for children.

Now in Dongying, there are more than 437,000 volunteers like Chen Burong, 2,122 registered volunteer service teams, and a total of 337,000 volunteer service activities. Since the beginning of this year, there have been more than 18,000 publicity activities. Volunteering is an innovative practice in the construction of spiritual civilization in the new era. In recent years, Dongying City has focused on the voluntary service tenet of "dedication, friendship, mutual assistance, and progress", accurately meeting needs, accurately organizing and promoting, and accurately serving the masses. It has organized and implemented a large number of voluntary services with unique characteristics and can be replicated and promoted by means of project. project.

At present, volunteer service projects have increasingly become an important carrier for deepening social governance and effectively serving people's livelihood. To this end, Dongying pays close attention to the needs of the masses and collects projects accurately. Relying on the new era civilization practice center (institutions, stations), Dongying has opened a new era civilization practice online supply and demand docking platform at the city, county (district), township (street), and village (community) levels, giving full play to the practice station administrator. The role of closely contacting the masses with the "two members" of the grid members enables seamless collection and one-click uploading of masses' needs. At the same time, Dongying City has extensively solicited high-quality volunteer service projects from the society in terms of theoretical lectures, medical health, science and technology popularization, production development, and life services, and established a volunteer service project library. Competitions and other forms and means to ensure that the project is effective.

Up to now, Dongying City has collected and organized 4,810 normalized volunteer service projects such as "Love Wanqing" and "I Send Warmth to the Veterans", and carried out 337,000 volunteer service activities, with a total of 1.12 million hours of volunteer service. In 2022, 210 civilized practice projects in the new era have been identified, including 22 demonstration projects for civilized practice in the new era and 188 projects for people's livelihood services.

Volunteering has its own characteristics and service has warmth. Dongying City innovates the implementation path of volunteer service and serves the masses accurately. The city vigorously promotes the supply of online volunteer services, and uses platforms such as WeChat, short videos, and mobile clients to carry out services such as caring for special groups, remote teaching support, and psychological counseling to expand the service radius. Dongying also created "one town, one product" and "one village, one product", encouraged grassroots to innovate in construction models and operation methods, cultivated a number of excellent teams and featured projects such as the Ruziniu Volunteer Service Alliance, and created a "micro-propaganda train". Volunteer propaganda brands such as "Literary and Art Hussars" have formed volunteer service brands such as "Benefits Health" and "Love to Help Farmers".