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China’s graduate glut: millions enter a job market with little use for them
AOL ^ | 14 Jun 2026 | Alastair McCready

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at aol.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: alastairmccready; aol; ccp; china; culturalrevolution; greatleapforward; guestworkers; implosion; jobs; mao; riseoftherobots; worldwareleven

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1 posted on 07/27/2026 7:18:31 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
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To: anthropocene_x

Well, I have no use for Chyna, so there is THAT!


2 posted on 07/27/2026 7:22:11 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: anthropocene_x

Something tells me they have more than a faggot degree in modern movies that lost money.


3 posted on 07/27/2026 7:22:13 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: anthropocene_x

Maybe they can drive down wages for college graduates in the US?


4 posted on 07/27/2026 7:23:34 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: anthropocene_x

It will help China’s seeding of the world as they leave for foreign work.


5 posted on 07/27/2026 7:32:02 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: anthropocene_x

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.


6 posted on 07/27/2026 7:39:53 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: anthropocene_x

Sounds like America to me.
All them useless gender studies graduates produced under Biden.


7 posted on 07/27/2026 7:43:54 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: anthropocene_x
They could hire these Pizza home Delivery (PhD) drivers to count all the tea in China, finally answering that age old question.

8 posted on 07/27/2026 7:44:54 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: anthropocene_x

at least a bunch of them can vote in America.


9 posted on 07/27/2026 8:03:42 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: anthropocene_x

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.


10 posted on 07/27/2026 8:32:41 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Work is best form of worship to Gods.. per Bhagavad Geeta, the Hindu ancient sacred book. )
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To: anthropocene_x

Plenty of soldiers to die on the battlefield.


11 posted on 07/27/2026 8:38:55 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: anthropocene_x
I read a post the other day that said China's population is shrinking due to national one-child laws.
If that were true, you should expect a shortage of graduates in high demand, rather than an unemployed surplus.
Is AI taking all the jobs, or is the economy failing, or both?
12 posted on 07/27/2026 9:23:41 PM PDT by ZOOKER
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To: anthropocene_x

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.


13 posted on 07/28/2026 12:31:42 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: anthropocene_x

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


14 posted on 07/28/2026 3:57:13 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

15 posted on 07/28/2026 5:22:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: Bobbyvotes

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.


16 posted on 07/28/2026 9:09:19 AM PDT by oldtech (oltech)
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To: anthropocene_x

My guess is that those millions of students are American born in the US and just itching to be a spy in the US.


17 posted on 07/28/2026 12:55:51 PM PDT by Rappini ("In hoc Signo Vinces" In this sign, you shall conquer.)
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