Three supports and one support is the abbreviation of teaching, supporting doctors, supporting agriculture and helping the poor. In 2006, eight departments, including the Central Organization Department, the former Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Education, issued the Notice on Organizing College Graduates to Support Education, Agriculture, Medicine and Poverty Alleviation in Rural Grassroots. Since 2006, 20,000 college graduates have been recruited every year by means of open recruitment, voluntary registration, organizational selection and unified dispatch, and they are mainly arranged to work in posts such as teaching, supporting agriculture, supporting doctors and helping the poor in villages and towns. The service period is generally 2-3 years, and the recruitment plan is mainly in economically underdeveloped areas.

The "three supports and one support" plan mainly includes organizing recruitment and providing management services for college graduates during their work. There is a detailed workflow for organizing recruitment, that is, before the end of April each year, all localities collect, summarize and report the demand information of grassroots posts such as education, agriculture and health at the township level; Before the end of May each year, according to the recruitment plan issued by various localities, open recruitment shall be conducted by means of assessment or examination; Before the end of July every year, send "three supports and one support" college students to report to the service unit.