China’s Young Generation Hampered By Lack Of Jobs
From Reuters: Nineteen years after a brutal crackdown against student protesters at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, China’s youth are more focused on iPods, designer jeans and buying their first car than...
View ArticleMillions of Chinese Graduates out of Work after Fivefold Rise in University...
The Guardian takes a look at the increasingly grim job market for recent graduates in China: More than 6 million Chinese students left university this year and up to a quarter are still struggling to...
View ArticleChina Jobs Slump Makes Graduates Swap Dreams for Civil Service
From Bloomberg: Sun Yizhen considered her university degree in international trade the ticket to a prestigious career with a state-owned enterprise like Bank of China Ltd. in Beijing. Instead, she...
View ArticleSome China Universities “Fudge” Student Jobs Data
From Reuters: Some Chinese universities have inflated graduate employment figures by issuing bogus work contracts as millions struggle to find work amid the downturn, an official newspaper said on...
View ArticleChina Sees Migrants Head Back to Work
From Wall Street Journal: The effects of China’s stimulus efforts are filtering into the job market, with the government reporting that most rural migrant workers have now found new jobs after the mass...
View ArticleNo Vacancies On Horizon For 12m Job Seekers
From China Daily: Job seekers in China will face an uphill battle in the coming months and as many as 12 million may not find work this year even if the country hits its 8 percent growth target, the...
View ArticleChina’s Lost Files
From the Financial Times, a look at the personal employment file that follows all Chinese citizens throughout their lives: While China has long since replaced its communist economy with a kind of raw...
View ArticleYoung Foreigners Hunt Jobs in China Amid Crisis
AP reports on young foreigners who are escaping bleak job prospects in the U.S. by moving to China: Young foreigners like Reasbeck are coming to China to look for work in its unfamiliar but less bleak...
View ArticleA Million Frustrated Graduates Swarm Squalid Colonies, Posing a Social...
Sim Chi Yin reports in The Straits Times (Singapore): They are smart, industrious and marginalised, huddling together for comfort. Hordes of China’s underemployed or underpaid university graduates have...
View ArticleEducated and Fearing the Future in China
Over the weekend, The New York Times website held an online forum over the topic of employment in China. Participants included: * C. Cindy Fan, associate dean of social sciences, U.C.L.A.; Yasheng...
View ArticleThe Ant Tribe
On her blog, the Hindustan Times correspondent in China writes about a recent visit to Tangjialing, a crowded residential area outside Beijing that has become home to legions of young, educated...
View ArticleAs Wages Rise in China, Manufacturers Look Elsewhere
Long the ubiquitous source of low-priced goods around the world, China is losing its appeal for foreign manufacturers. From the New York Times: Bruce Rockowitz, the chief executive of Li & Fung,...
View ArticleHIV Positive Teachers to Petition China Government
Anti-discrimination laws in China state that people who have HIV or AIDS are entitled to equal employment and medical treatment, but three men from three different provinces claimed that they were...
View ArticleUrban Wages See Double-Digit Growth in 2011
The National Bureau of Statistics announced Tuesday that average wages for urban Chinese workers in both the private and non-private sectors rose by double digits in 2011, according to The China Daily:...
View ArticleCDT Money: Credit Where Credit Is Due
A key measure of Chinese manufacturing activity edged into positive territory last week, as the official Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose from a September level of 49.8 to 50.2 for October. The...
View ArticleSecond Quarter GDP Slows to 7.5%
Early Monday, Xinhua reported that the GDP for the second quarter had slowed to 7.5%, as many economists had expected: CHINA'S Q2 GDP GROWTH EASES TO 7.5 PCT — Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) July 15,...
View ArticleGhost Towns: No Place To Live If There’s No Work
Government efforts to urbanize China's population by building new towns are failing due to a lack of local jobs; one of the many newly constructed towns, Tieling, remains empty because residents cannot...
View ArticleHas English Lost its Luster in China?
The Wall Street Journal reports that English language skills, once considered essential for economic stability in China’s modernizing economy, no longer carry the same weight: Estimates vary, but state...
View ArticleRetirement Age to Rise; Job Growth Expected to Slow
With China’s pension fund facing mounting pressure as its population continues to age, Reuters’ Koh Gui Qing reports that policymakers are planning to gradually raise the official retirement age: Yin...
View ArticleWho Wants to Be a Mandarin if You Can’t Take Bribes?
As a result of President Xi Jinping’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign, there has been a steady decline in the number of college graduates seeking employment in China’s public sector along with a...
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