The "Guide for National Civil Servants' Entrance Examination" clearly gives several situations that belong to grassroots work experience: it refers to working experience in party and government organs, state-owned enterprises and institutions, village (community) organizations, other economic organizations and social organizations below the county level. Unemployed college graduates who leave school go to the internship base of college graduates (the base is grass-roots units) to participate in internships or participate in project research in enterprises and institutions, which can be regarded as grassroots work experience. Working experience in an army regiment or equivalent units below the regiment can be regarded as grassroots work experience. The experience of those who apply for Central directly under the authority can also be regarded as grassroots work experience.

How to define the starting time of grassroots work experience: (1) For those who work in grass-roots party and government organs, institutions and state-owned enterprises, grassroots work experience time is counted from the date of registration. (2) grassroots work experience time is counted from the date when the central and local grass-roots employment projects are declared, such as "university student village officials", "three supports and one support" (teaching, supporting agriculture, supporting medicine and helping the poor), "volunteer service plan for university students in the western region" and "special post plan for school teachers in rural compulsory education stage". (3) If he is employed for the first time in a grass-roots specific public welfare post (social management and public service), the grassroots work experience time shall be calculated from the starting time agreed in the work agreement. (4) Unemployed college graduates who leave school go to the internship base of college graduates (the base is the grass-roots unit) to participate in the internship or participate in the project research of enterprises and institutions shall be regarded as having grassroots work experience, counting from the date of registration. (five) in other economic organizations, social organizations and other units, grassroots work experience time is calculated from the starting time agreed in the labor contract. (six) to start their own businesses and go through the formalities in the industrial and commercial registration, the grassroots work experience time shall be counted from the date of issuance of the business license.