Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said when he visited Beihang University this past week that the government had given top priority to college graduates' employment and would draw up some effective measures to ensure that all students can have a job.

Britain's Financial Times reported that the Chinese authority has already expressed increasing concern over social stability in recent weeks. Zhang Xiaojing, a director from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is quoted as saying that if the country's economic growth declines to less than 8%, there will be a great problem of unemployment. A think tank of the Chinese government also released a report last week, which said that about 1.5 million college graduates in the country have not had a job and an estimated some 6.5 million more will graduate next year, which will make the employment situation even worse.

Apart from college graduates, Premier Wen said that the Chinese government is also concerned with jobless migrant workers. China's statistic shows that by the end of November, there had been 10 million migrant workers who had not been employed, of which 4.85 million had returned to their hometowns.

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