Yuan Lin, a female doctor born in the 1990s, was appointed as the deputy mayor of Fuqing City.(Internet)

Yuan Lin, a post-90s female Ph.D. from Peking University, was appointed as the deputy mayor of Fuqing City, Fujian Province. The news aroused public attention.The Organization Department of the Fuzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China responded yesterday that Yuan Lin's appointment as deputy mayor is a social practice, and the temporary appointment period is 10 months.

According to reports from The Beijing News and The Paper, the Standing Committee of the Seventeenth National People's Congress of Fuqing City decided the day before yesterday to appoint Yuan Lin as the deputy mayor of the People's Government of Fuqing City.

According to public information, Yuan Lin was born in March 1990 and studied abroad at the age of 18. In 2012, she graduated from the Economics Department of the School of Social Sciences of Rice University in the United States with a bachelor's degree in economics and management, and was later admitted to the school's George Brown School of Engineering.Master of Statistics Department of Statistics.

After graduating with a master's degree in 2013, Yuan Lin worked as an investment assistant in the investment department of Zhengren Investment (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Finance, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.

After the news of the post-90s generation Yuan Lin becoming the deputy mayor was disclosed by the media, Chinese netizens questioned that the relevant appointment violated national laws and regulations.

In this regard, Fuqing City’s superior Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee Organization Department clarified to the Beijing News yesterday that according to the cooperation agreement between Fujian Province and Peking University, it is a social practice for Peking University to send backbone graduate students to Fujian for short-term internships.Since the beginning of this year, Peking University has recommended three outstanding backbone doctoral students to work in relevant departments and grassroots frontlines in Fujian Province for training and social practice.

According to reports, Yuan Lin's temporary deputy mayor has no administrative level, and has been appointed as a temporary deputy mayor of Fuqing City in accordance with legal procedures. She will be automatically exempted after the 10-month temporary appointment expires.Yuan Lin is currently on the job. During the period of temporary employment, she should complete the research report to provide advice and suggestions for the local government. After the temporary employment period expires, she will return to school to continue her studies.

According to a Beijing time report, the Talent Office of the Organization Department of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee emphasized that Yuan Lin's personnel relations and files are still in Peking University, and she has not become a civil servant.

Yuan Lin's second job stems from the policy of introducing new students implemented by Fujian Province in 2013.According to relevant policies, the Fujian provincial capital introduces excellent doctoral and master graduates from well-known universities, and directly assumes official positions such as deputy county (district) mayor and deputy town mayor, and provides a variety of trainings to train and reserve young cadres.

According to the Beijing Youth Daily’s WeChat official account Zhengzhiquan, as of this year, Fujian has selected and introduced six batches of 214 students from Tsinghua University, Peking University and the National People’s Congress, including 109 PhD students.16 people were promoted to department-level leading cadres, including a county party secretary, three county heads, a director of a provincial government agency, five principals of municipal government agencies, and 11 people served as township party committee secretaries and township heads.

The report also sorted out a number of post-90s who have entered China's political arena in recent years.In August last year, Ni Zhimao, a Ph.D. graduate from Peking University, was selected as the deputy head of Yuyang District, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province; Zheng Ruizhen, a Ph..Both were born in 1990.

In August 2014, Jiang Renzheng, a post-90s doctoral student in the Chinese Department of Peking University, was appointed as the deputy head of Jintai District, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province.In 2016, as a 2016 introductory student in Fujian Province, he has been serving as the deputy magistrate of Luoyuan County, Fuzhou City until now.

In addition to temporary posts, there are also many post-90s among the college student village officials and the first secretary in the village, such as Cheng Ju, a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress and secretary of Dashi Village, Chongyang County, Xianning City, Hubei Province.

Cheng Ju was born in March 1990 and worked in Guangzhou after graduating from East China Jiaotong University.He returned to his hometown in June 2014 and became the village party secretary and village director of Dashi, the youngest village cadre in Xianning.