China’s Ministry of Education has recently issued a notice on the employment of college graduates, emphasizing the serious employment pressure, and reiterating the mobilization of graduates to work in remote areas, which is included in the assessment of colleges and universities.
According to the “Notice on the Employment and Entrepreneurship Work of the 2021 Graduates of Ordinary Colleges and Universities” issued by the Chinese Ministry of Education at the end of last month and released earlier this month, recent college graduates are under tremendous pressure to find jobs. What has attracted more public attention is that in Article 17 of the Notice, the Ministry of Education, in a rare move, emphasizes that the number of graduates working in remote and hard-to-reach areas will be one of the assessment indicators for universities.
According to Mr. Liu, a senior media personality, the Ministry of Education’s emphasis on employment in this notice is not surprising, because China’s current employment situation is grim, and the mobilization of young people to go to the countryside highlights the inequality between the rich and the poor in China.
He pointed out that the official emphasis on mobilizing graduates to go to remote and hard-to-reach areas, children of poor families with no way out had no choice but to go to hard-to-reach areas, but children of rich and powerful families would only choose to go to developed countries in Europe and the United States.
Mr. Liu said: this is an assessment of the school, do not go? It’s not up to you to decide what to do in the future. This policy will be forced on you. It’s a new era of going to the countryside. They put their children in developed countries, and then the children of the poor go to hard-to-reach areas, and they do this in order to ease the pressure of employment, which everyone knows.
Mr. Liu pointed out that this year’s 8.74 million college graduates, after their graduation and the end of both autumn and spring recruitment, there are still more than half of the graduates have not found a job. In previous years, the official employment rate was generally declared to be above 90%.
Faced with the Ministry of Education’s notice, the response from the universities has been mediocre. Peking University, in response to our reporter, said that at least the Student Work Department was not clear about the situation and suggested asking the university’s Student Employment Center.
However, sources from the Career Center of Peking University said they were not sure if the university would have any new policies.
Peking University Career Center: this document on Dec. 1? To be honest, I don’t really know where to direct you to for this. We don’t know what the university’s policy is here either.
In the past, Yunnan University, which has been the focus of support in the border area, said that they did not care about this matter, but revealed that there was a national policy of compensating students for employment in hardship areas.
The university’s Department of Academic and Industrial Affairs: We don’t care about it anyway, I don’t think so, ask the career center. It seems that there is an employment compensation for students who go to some remote areas. This is a nationwide policy. We don’t do interviews over the phone, so if you want to do an interview, contact our school publicity department.
The Ministry of Education did not respond to a request for an interview. So far, we have not seen the Ministry of Education’s rules for evaluating graduates working in hard-to-reach areas.
For the previous three years, Chinese official media have been known to follow the propaganda line of the Central Propaganda Department in advocating for urban workers, graduates, and even urban residents to return home and start their own businesses.
In the mid-1950s, the Communist regime encouraged urban youth to set up roots in the countryside and border areas because of the enormous pressure on employment. When the Cultural Revolution began, the authorities used national mobilization and compulsory distribution to send up to 16 million urban youths to the countryside and frontiers to cultivate land, which became the memory of generations of blood and tears. To date, however, it is unclear whether the Chinese authorities will restart a similar political anti-urbanization campaign on a large scale.
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