Category: china unemployment

‘Graduates Can Pay to Get Work’: Suggestion to Tackle China’s High Unemployment Rate Triggers Outrage

A well-known IT professional in China recently suggested on social media that job applicants could pay employers to get work, and address the nation’s youth unemployment issue. The suggestion attracted significant attention and criticism, as similar practices already exist in China’s IT industry— where graduates pay companies off the books to intern. The IT professional,…


Hundreds of Millions of Chinese Need Jobs: Premier Li Keqiang

In 2022, 16 million Chinese people will join the workforce and need a job. At the same time, almost 300 million migrant workers will enter the cities, to earn money to feed their families in villages back home, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on March 11. In 2022, hundreds of thousands of veterans will leave…