Retirement Age to Rise; Job Growth Expected to Slow
With China’s pension fund facing mounting pressure as its population continues to...
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Jobs Hard to Find for China’s Disabled
As obstacles to education for disabled Chinese persist, The Washington Post’s William Wan...
China’s Jobless Rate Is 5.1%. Or Maybe It’s 4.1%.
Two Chinese ministries have released conflicting job market figures that put urban unemployment...
Journey of the ‘Sea Turtles’
At Tea Leaf Nation, Rachel Lu looks at the factors that play into the difficult decisions that...
Eight Women Speak Out Against Gendered Job Ads
A group of eight Chinese women facing gender discrimination in the job market have “named...
Has English Lost its Luster in China?
The Wall Street Journal reports that English language skills, once considered essential for...
The Coveted Government Jobs No One in China Wants
With China’s enormous pool of college graduates set to keep growing, many young and educated...
Ghost 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 find employment: Urban...
China’s Higher Education Bubble
With millions of college students graduating into China’s “hardest job-hunting season,” Fordham Law School’s Carl Minzner argues at Caixin that the Chinese government needs to re-evaluate its educational...
In Today’s Tight Job Market, Virgos Need Not Apply
While China’s recently graduated—including many of those who enjoyed their higher education abroad—are facing bleak prospects on the job market, the South China Morning Post’s Amy Li looks at an additional layer of...
Second 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, 2013 Reuters earlier...
Gaokao Quitters Multiply as ‘Sea Turtles’ Flounder
Amid bleak job prospects for many of China’s fresh college graduates, The Economist reports that even an education abroad is no longer the golden ticket it once was: […] Several studies show that sea turtles on average...
Graduates Face “Hardest Job-Hunting Season” Ever
A sputtering economy has left China’s seven million college graduates with bleak job prospects, according to Andrew Jacobs and Sue-Lin Wong of The New York Times: Businesses say they are swamped with job applications but...
China’s Lopsided Labor Force
As China’s college enrollment rate continues to increase, short-term employment prospects for graduates look dim compared with those of their migrant worker counterparts, who dominate high-demand low-skill jobs with rising...
Anxieties and Hopes for China’s Future
There are many causes for anxiety in Chinese society today: a weak job market, a stressful work environment, food safety issues, poisonous air, the list goes on. Tencent News recently produced a video profiling young, urban...
Young Chinese Desperate to Be Civil Servants
A desperate civil service applicant in Nanjing, Mr. Wang, forged many CVs to make his own application stand out, stirring up yet another round of retrospection over China’s coveted civil service recruitment. From...
Chinese College Graduates Play It Safe and Lose Out
At The Wall Street Journal, Bob Davis describes how prestige and security are driving fresh graduates towards jobs in government or state-owned enterprises, rather than private companies or entrepreneurship: Over the past...
China’s Generation Gaps
As income inequality in China grows increasingly urgent, James Palmer examines another divide in Chinese society less frequently scrutinized in the West: the generation gap between young Chinese and their parents, which one...
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