Posted on 07/27/2026 7:18:31 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
Each year, millions more graduates are thrust into China’s already saturated jobs market. The situation for this year’s cohort, flooding into an increasingly crowded pool of applicants fighting for an insufficient number of positions, is arguably the bleakest yet.
The competition is intense, especially for jobs that offer weekends off and proper social insurance
With more than 10 million Chinese students graduating each year since 2022, a figure that is only growing, it is the scale of the situation that is an exacerbating factor, with authorities tasked with finding meaningful work for the equivalent of a medium-sized European nation each year.
As the economy shifted, a mismatch emerged between the skills being supplied by graduates and those demanded by the labour market,” the researcher says, adding that the problem has been exacerbated more recently by AI’s “transformative impact.
Informal polls conducted by recent graduates on China’s TikTok equivalent Xiaohongshu, in which they ask their peers about their employment status, paint a bleak picture. One held in June by a 2025 graduate had more than 14,000 respondents, of whom more than 10,000 said they were still unemployed. Another poll found 3,317 of 4,637 respondents selecting “unemployed since graduating, feeling aimless, lost and anxious” as their situation.
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Well, I have no use for Chyna, so there is THAT!
Something tells me they have more than a faggot degree in modern movies that lost money.
Maybe they can drive down wages for college graduates in the US?
It will help China’s seeding of the world as they leave for foreign work.
So, they’ve dug themselves into a similar hole as the west: Too many theoreticals/paper pushers and not enough trades?
Too bad, so sad.
Sounds like America to me.
All them useless gender studies graduates produced under Biden.
at least a bunch of them can vote in America.
There are lots of college walking the streets in USA as well or working in basic jobs such as waiters. Most are burdened with student debts in 5 figures. My ex-GF at age 66 still has $13,000 student debt.
India has a huge glut of computer programmers.
Plenty of soldiers to die on the battlefield.
IDIOT CHINESE...oh yeah, I have an exam in my Women’s Vegan Sexuality class tomorrow. So nice of the government to pay for it.
Lying flat, or “tang ping” in Chinese, is a movement among young people in China that promotes rejecting societal pressures to overwork and instead embracing a minimalist lifestyle focused on personal well-being
Some of these replies have caused me to think why I never went to college. At the time (late fifties) it was definitely unaffordable nor did I have the desire (or prabably the aptitude) to attend college, so I went into the military. I DID have some of the aptitudes for the chances they were offering & was able to sign on for more orless what I wanted. Well the wages after I was discharged were hardly what I expected, but I didn’t have a large debt hanging over my head either. I had no debt at all.
My guess is that those millions of students are American born in the US and just itching to be a spy in the US.
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