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One in 5 young people in Chinese cities are out of work. Beijing wants them to work in the fields
In China, as many as 11 million youths, or one in five job seekers cannot get jobs in urban cities and towns. And now, over 11 million new college graduates are about to join the already-overcrowded white-color job market mainly in urban job markets. In the meantime, there has been a serious shortage of blue-collar workers, such as farmers, mechanics, servers, and factory workers, which just require vocational or middle school education and training. Many of such jobs are often available not in major cities but in the countryside.
The Down to the Countryside Movement was a policy instituted by the legendary Chinese leader Mao Zedong between the mid-1950s and 1978, which sent 17 million youth from cities to rural areas in order to have them learn from the workers and farmers there. The movement prevented the sent-down youth from attending universities. Now, the central and local governments are trying to solve this job-unmatching problem by promoting similar movements. The influential Communist Youth League encourage college graduates to take off their scholar gowns and roll up their trousers and go down to the fields. Indeed, many college graduates seem to be overeducated to meet today’s and maybe tomorrow’s workforce needs. Is this job unmatching problem limited to China?
Read the article and think if what education and training could provide better job opportunities for the youth when lifelong education and learning provide more up-to-date job requirements.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/30/economy/china-youth-unemployment-intl-hnk/index.html
One in 5 young people in Chinese cities are out of work. Beijing wants them to work in the fields
In China, as many as 11 million youths, or one in five job seekers cannot get jobs in urban cities and towns. And now, over 11 million new college graduates are about to join the already-overcrowded white-color job market mainly in urban job markets. In the meantime, there has been a serious shortage of blue-collar workers, such as farmers, mechanics, servers, and factory workers, which just require vocational or middle school education and training. Many of such jobs are often available not in major cities but in the countryside.
The Down to the Countryside Movement was a policy instituted by the legendary Chinese leader Mao Zedong between the mid-1950s and 1978, which sent 17 million youth from cities to rural areas in order to have them learn from the workers and farmers there. The movement prevented the sent-down youth from attending universities. Now, the central and local governments are trying to solve this job-unmatching problem by promoting similar movements. The influential Communist Youth League encourage college graduates to take off their scholar gowns and roll up their trousers and go down to the fields. Indeed, many college graduates seem to be overeducated to meet today’s and maybe tomorrow’s workforce needs. Is this job unmatching problem limited to China?
Read the article and think if what education and training could provide better job opportunities for the youth when lifelong education and learning provide more up-to-date job requirements.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/30/economy/china-youth-unemployment-intl-hnk/index.html
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