BEIJING: China is making continuous progress in helping fresh college graduates land jobs, and is also stepping up efforts to optimize its statistical practices to gauge the youth employment market to better serve the nation’s social and economic development.
Latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the surveyed unemployment rate in urban areas was 5.3 percent in July, up 0.1 percentage point compared with June. However, the July figure is 0.1 percentage point lower compared with the same period last year.
“Information from the Ministry of Education shows that most college graduates have landed jobs and the group’s employment remains stable,” said NBS spokesman Fu Linghui at a news conference on Tuesday in Beijing.
Last month, Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng said the number of college graduates this year reached 11.58 million, up about 8 percent year-on-year, and their employment rate saw a growth of around 2 to 3 percentage points, as of July 2, compared with the same period last year.
Thanks to the joint efforts of the central government and the people, the result is “worthy of recognition”, Huai added.
According to Fu, the nation has launched a series of campaigns this year to recruit college graduates to grassroots positions, such as village doctors. –The Daily Mail-China Daily exchange item
