The State Council also encouraged college students to broaden their job search and consider working in grassroots communities, central and western parts of China or SMEs, or start their own business.
要想取得进步就要temper oneself in grassroots unit(下基层锻炼),政府出台了多项措施extend democracy at the grassroots level(扩大基层民主),实行shift of power to the grassroots(权力下放),并且提高了the grassroots teachers(基层教师)的待遇。
既然是“基层的”,那就也是最“基本的、根本的”。做事情要找到a grassroots solution(根本的解决办法),to go back to grassroots (回到根本上去)。在国际合作中要建立the grassroots of international cooperation(国际合作的基础)。
报道中,start one's own business意思是“自主创业”,我们还常用self-employed来表示这种意思,也就是我们平时说的“个体经营者”。And at least the self-employed can choose their own work patterns(给自己打工至少可以选择自己的工作模式)。