[NTDNewsNovember292021Beijingtime]The Chinese Communist Party’s official media recently reported that the total number of college graduates across China will exceed 10 million in 2022. In the past two years, due to the impact of the Chinese Communist Party virus (COVID-19) and the economic downturn, many domestic companies have been forced to “broken their tails” to survive and lay off a large number of employees. Coupled with the “expansion” of colleges and universities in the past two years, the current college graduates are graduating. After the severe situation of employment difficulties.
According to CCTV reports, the number of graduates from various colleges and universities in China will reach 10.76 million in 2022, a net increase of 1.67 million over 2021. The annual increase is almost the total increase in the past nine years. This means that the employment pressure of Chinese college graduates has further increased. Even the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China issued a notice stating that “the employment situation is complex and severe.”
According to the report, the peak of the number of college graduates has not yet come. In recent years, China’s colleges and universities have continued to expand their enrollment. In 2019 and 2020, the enrollment of higher vocational colleges, master’s degree and doctoral students has also increased significantly. Therefore, it is expected that in two to three years, an “unprecedented graduation wave” will be formed.
In fact, in recent years, it has become the norm for Chinese college students to become unemployed after graduation. In mid-July this year, The Epoch Times reported on the difficulty of finding jobs for Chinese college graduates. At that time, a student surnamed Wu from Peking University who graduated in 2020 told The Epoch Times that not only did the number of graduates that year have increased sharply, but that there were too few monks and porridges, there were also many previous graduates who were unable to find jobs due to the impact of the epidemic last year.
The university student said frankly, “The current economic situation in China is generally very sluggish, and companies are generally experiencing difficulties in survival. The jobs that can be provided can be said to have not increased but decreased. All of these will inevitably cause severe difficulties in the employment situation this year.”
According to survey data from Chinese companies, under the impact of the epidemic, 1 million small stores will be directly transferred or closed down in 2020, affecting 7 million jobs. At the same time, many companies in China are facing difficulties in recruiting workers, and it is even more difficult to recruit skilled workers. Official statistics show that China’s skilled labor gap this year is about 20 million.
In an interview with The Epoch Times, a scholar who pays attention to labor rights, Mr. Liu said that China’s labor shortage occurs in the manufacturing industry, mainly in the economically developed coastal areas. This is a structural shortage. He said: “Because China’s vocational education is very poor, and there is a special shortage of skilled workers in China. So some companies want to recruit skilled workers, but skilled workers cannot.”
Mr. Liu said that problems with education are also an important reason for the surplus of labor for college students. The entire higher education is biased towards general knowledge, and does not pay attention to this kind of professional, technical and professional education. Therefore, the employment of many college students has nothing to do with their majors.
Mr. Liu further pointed out that because the government does not pay attention to the aspect of vocational and technical education, China’s vocational and technical colleges lack faculty, teaching facilities and internship bases, and a large number of vocational technical colleges have transformed into black intermediaries, only teaching in the first year. For some basic courses, the students are sent to the factory in the second year. They are called “internships”. In fact, they are selling students’ labor at a low price. Therefore, parents are unwilling to send their children to vocational and technical education colleges.
“In these vocational and technical schools, you can’t learn real skills. This is another structural unemployment,” Mr. Liu said. “It is because the educational structure is unreasonable, because the general undergraduate education is too surplus, and higher vocational and technical education is practical. There is a shortage of vocational skills education in China, and the resulting unemployment is also very serious.”
(Reporter Liming Comprehensive Report / Chief Editor: Fan Ming)
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