By September 1 this year, an average of 73 percent of Chinese university graduates found jobs, an increase of three percentage points from a year earlier, the People's Daily reported today.
Ninety-three percent of postgraduates were employed, with the proportion reaching 84 percent for bachelor's degree holders. Sixty-one percent of graduates with junior college or equivalent diplomas found jobs, up six percentage points from the same period last year.
There are a total of 2.8 million university graduates across the nation this year, increasing by 680,000, or 32 percent from a year before.
In order to ease the tough employment situation this year, the State Council issued a circular to help university graduates get employed, and the Ministry of Education, Personnel and Labor and Social Security have cooperated with each other to carry out the circular.
Thirty domestic provinces and cities have established or improved their leadership coordinated systems for the employment of university graduates, with 19 provinces building up city-level leadership coordinated systems and 28 provinces and cities establishing employment reporting and job-rate releasing systems.
Chinese university graduates are encouraged to work in the West region and at the grass-roots level. A total of 6,212 graduates volunteered to work in the West region this year, with the number of those working at the grass-roots level in the West region amounting to 10,000 to date, up more than 4,000 from the previous year.
Eighteen province and citied have launched volunteer service programs, and invested nearly 70 million yuan (US$8.4 million) in sending 6,939 volunteers to work in undeveloped areas.