According to the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China, college graduates on the mainland will exceed 9 million for the first time in 2021, reaching 9.09 million. Wu Aihua, deputy director of the Department of University Student affairs under the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said recently that the employment situation for college graduates this year is grim due to the impact of the OUTBREAK of the COMMUNIST Party of China (CPC) pneumonia and economic restructuring. The increase in the number of graduates next year may make employment more difficult.
Wu Aihua recently revealed that the difficulty of finding a job for college students this year is mainly due to the superimposition of a variety of factors. These factors are short term and long term. In 2021, the number of college graduates will exceed 9 million for the first time, and the scale growth is bound to make the employment situation more severe.
First of all, due to the epidemic in February and March this year, college graduates could not meet employers face to face, and many Internet companies were also unable to enter the campus for recruitment.
Second, with the popularization of higher education, the number of graduates this year is close to 8.74 million, a year-on-year increase of 400,000, making the job market more competitive for college students. In addition, China is in a period of economic restructuring, and the reduction of capacity and inventory in some industries has also led to a decline in labor demand.
According to the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China, there will be 9.09 million college graduates in 2021 and more than 10 million in the next generation.
Due to the impact of the Communist Party of China (CPC) virus epidemic, 2020 is regarded as the “hardest employment season in history”. Taiwan media reported that statistics from some employment service centers for college students on the mainland show that only 25 percent of the fresh graduates have found jobs.
“Affected by the epidemic this year, college graduates in 2020 are facing many difficulties in finding jobs,” Said Zhang Ying, director of the Employment promotion department under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, at a regular briefing on State Council policy on Oct. 28. “Market demand is declining, recruitment is delayed, and job hunting has encountered new obstacles.” She also revealed that 2.8 million college graduates are employed in the public sector. This figure accounts for more than 30 percent of the total number of college graduates this year.
But the party’s official employment figures have been met with scepticism. In July, the South China Morning Post reported that Communist Party officials were trying to reduce the unemployment rate by extending the definition of “employed” for new college graduates to include online stores, e-sports players and bloggers, classifying them as “flexible employment” and adding them to the overall employment pool.
The Legal Daily also reported that due to the shrinking employment market caused by the pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan, some colleges and universities required graduates to sign employment agreements with various hard or soft conditions to “water down” the employment rate of graduates, and many fresh graduates were found to be “employed”.
Caijing magazine reported in August that employment with a college degree is the most difficult. In June, the proportion of undergraduates was the highest (65.6 percent), followed by college students (26.2 percent), master’s degree holders (8.0 percent) and doctoral candidates (0.14 percent). Female college students are more difficult to find employment than male students.
On July 10 this year, the headline on the Xinhua News Agency’s website read: “Do everything possible to Help College graduates find jobs.” Chinese Communist Party media are again focusing on the employment of college students. The article begins with Mr. Xi, who “emphasized in his reply to the graduates of the Kelamay Campus of China University of Petroleum… To do a good job in the employment of college graduates… Do everything possible to help college graduates find jobs.
According to analysts, reports in the Communist Party’s media that Xi wrote letters to college graduates reveal the difficulty of finding jobs for college students.
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