<Author>Michael</Author>
<Topic>Jobs for Graduates</Topic>
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<Nationality>USA</Nationality>
As more and more Chinese citizens get educated, more and more will complete their university education. In turn, more and more educated citizens will compete for professional positions. Fortunately, as China increasingly opens up, there will be more and more professional positions opening up too. On a negative level, however, unless Chinese professionals are very skilled in certain highly needed careers, there also may be fewer good job opportunities for them.
Since China's rural, village, and small town population is at about 78% of the total Chinese population, and wages in these sectors remains quite low, many of these individuals are seeking or are encouraged to seek employment in larger cities. This may provide the cities with many unskilled workers who are not much better off than they were in the more rural areas. Because China still requires residency permits and licenses to live in cities or certain other more developed areas, until there are plentiful jobs, these persons have no opportunity to move legally to the cities. We need also to recognize that even with strong population' control laws and regulations, China has more than twenty-five million new births annually. This is nearly the same as the total population of the second largest country in the world--Canada.
As has been expressed in Essay 42, education in China still seems to be the single most important factor in increasing skills for better than subsistence living jobs and professional opportunities. In turn this increased knowledge base should lead to more and more satisfactory jobs for university graduates. Good luck in obtaining good jobs as you move into the sector of educated citizens!
