China's Ministry of Education, Ministry of Personnel and Ministry of Labor and Social Security have asked comprehensive measures to be taken to try to ensure that half of the unemployed university graduate students can be fully employed by the end of 2008. In the meantime, MOLSS has asked for special aid to be given to students who have been registered as jobless.
The situation faced by unemployed college graduates in China has been the focus of attention of various parties. The 17th National Congress of the CPC held in October listed, for the first time, the employment of college graduates as an important task of the Communist Party of China.
Apart from the central government' efforts, each provincial government is working hard to help the graduates find employment. Fujian Province reportedly provides consulting and employment guidance to students from "zero employment" families and offers them job opportunities. Shandong Province gives students from "zero employment" families and those from poor families priority in taking a job or internship. Beijing's public occupation agents also carry out special activities to help the newly graduated students to find jobs.
China's college graduates are facing many difficulties and challenges in employment. Statistics reported in various media show there won't be a dramatic increase in job offerings in 2008, but there will be about 5.59 million students who are graduating from college that year, which is an increase of 640,000 compared with that of 2007.
