Students Grow Desperate Over China’s Tight Job Market
But indications have emerged that, booming as it is, the economy may not be able to absorb that many degree-holders into the jobs for which they are being trained. “The fact is that it’s very hard for college students to get the right job these days,” said Zhang Xuxin, a Zhengzhou student with close-cropped hair and plastic-rimmed glasses who plans to pursue postgraduate studies next year. “You may have a job, but it’s very hard to have an ideal one.”
Growing an economy to create huge numbers of even decent jobs is very difficult, especially when starting from where China and India were in 1990. Often the strength of China’s economy blinds people to the continued great difficulty. Good jobs are the lifeblood of an economy. China has lost far more manufacturing jobs than any other country. Yes, even as they have grown their manufacturing production enormously. The entire world is increasing manufacturing output while decreasing manufacturing employment, see: Manufacturing Jobs Data: USA and China.
Graduates shut out of job market
A total of 4.13 million students graduated from higher education institutions this year, 750,000 more than last year, said Tian.
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