Jane Chen/ Shanghai Daily news

Following an influx of foreign companies to Shanghai, graduates of foreign language majors, particularly masters of "small languages", find it much easier to find a job, the Wenhui Daily reported.
The term "small languages" refers to foreign languages other than English, which is commonly taught in China's schools.
Every graduate of Shanghai International Studies Institute's 10-plus small language majors has found a job over the past few years, compared with the average 90 percent for Shanghai's university graduates during the same period.
In Shanghai, SISU offers teaching in the largest variety of small languages, including Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Deutsch and Portuguese.
To further meet the demands of the job market, it plans to open an Indonesian major in 2005 to widen its teaching scope, according to its principal Dai Weidong.
"Since masters of small languages are still in short supply in Shanghai amid the increasing demand for these language talents, many of our students take part-time jobs even before graduation, he said.
To improve the teaching, the school will continue to cooperate with foreign universities in small language education, the principal added.
For example, SISU's Deutsch department has jointly offered a Deutsch-business program with Germany's Universitt Bayreuth.
Twenty-five year-2004 graduates of the program, who received their bachelor's degrees from both SISU and Universitt Bayreuth in June, have flied to Germany to pursue another two and a half years at Bayreuth for a Master's program in economy and business administration.