This year the government also abandoned the use of the employment and registration certificate, a document that was used for decades to approve a graduate’s transfer from a university to an employer.Īlthough the certificate was mostly a bureaucratic relic, its cancellation would “make it more convenient for college graduates to seek employment”, the ministry of human resources and social security said in a notice on 12 May.Ĭhina is not alone in struggling to rebalance its economy after being battered by the Covid pandemic. The government wants state-owned enterprises to recruit 1 million trainees in 2023, and has set an overall target of creating 12m urban jobs this year, up from 11m in 2022. In April it published details of a set of policies designed to stimulate the jobs market, including subsidies for companies that hire unemployed university graduates. “I don’t like teaching in a rural area as it is hard to survive in that environment, especially for girls,” she says. Xie has seen job advertisements that require the teacher to work in a rural school for a year. The country is also struggling to fill jobs in the right places. That eased the homework burden for schoolchildren but torpedoed jobs for young graduates, including Xie, who had previously looked at tutoring as a way of getting teaching experience. Between 20 the number of graduates majoring in sports and education increased by more than 20%, according to Goldman Sachs.īut in 2021 the government suddenly banned for-profit tutoring, decimating an industry that had previously been worth $150bn.
In March a commentary in state media said youths were “unwilling to engage in jobs that are lower than their expectations”.Ĭhina’s economy is suffering from a mismatch between the jobs available and the qualifications of jobseekers. State media has criticised these memes, accusing them of being self-indulgent. Graduates look for work at a jobs fair in Haikou, Hainan province. Kong is a scholar turned beggar who is mocked by the locals at a tavern he drinks at for his pretentious airs. The problem of overeducated unemployed youths has become so acute that people have started comparing themselves to Kong Yiji, a fictional character from a story by Lu Xun, one of the greats of Chinese literature. Nearly 11.6 million students are set to graduate in June, facing a labour market that looks increasingly hostile. “It makes me really frustrated,” she says. Xie is 26 and has not managed to find a job in China since leaving higher education. Youth unemployment in China hit a record high in April, with 20.4% of 16- to 24-year-old jobseekers unable to find work. She says a friend in the same city recently sat an English teacher recruitment test, along with about 100 other people. Xie soon discovered that “a lot of people studied abroad and want the same thing”. But after working at a Korean supermarket in Brisbane for several months after graduating, in February she decided to return to her home city of Kunming, in the south-west province of Yunnan, to find a job as an English teacher.
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