Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news

The reliance on constant financial support from parents has cut local jobless youths' eagerness to find a job, according to the results of a random survey published yesterday by downtown Luwan District's labor authority.
The survey, quoted by today's Youth Daily, interviewed 202 of the total 1,600 unemployed adults aged below 35 in the district.  It shows more than 70 percent of the young people live on their parents, with only 20 percent taking odd jobs and 23 percent not having a plan at all to find a job currently.
Though most of the young people are poorly educated -- or nearly 80 percent haven't received college-above education, as many as some 70 percent don't participate the government-sponsored job-training program to improve their professional skills.
Besides, the youths expect impractically high for their jobs, the survey reflects. Of those interviewed, 28 percent want clerk jobs, 25 percent administration positions, 10 percent serving staff and only 10 percent workers.
More than half, or 54 percent, expect a monthly pay over 1,500 yuan (US$181), nearing last year's fresh university graduates' average salary of 1,680 yuan.
Youths have low loyalty to the employers and like to change jobs, the survey shows, as up to 80 percent of the young people prefer work contracts of shorter than one year and 72 percent already have had more than two jobs.