11 Million College Graduates Enter Job Market; PhD Competing for Street Order Officer

Recently, a widespread discussion has been triggered on a story about a doctorate in physics from Peking University, who won the competition for a job position named “Urban Management and Law Enforcement Officer“ in a grassroots street of Beijing. At the time when fresh graduates are all out looking for jobs, the issue of the serious shrinking job market for young people and the waste of well-educated talent has been brought up again. According to a report released by China’s Ministry of Education, there are an estimated million fresh college graduates in 2022 in China, an increase of million year-on-year. It is said that an additional 800,000 international students are planning to return to China to work. A record number of graduates and a record increase in the number of graduates are making the already difficult employment situation even more severe. According to data released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the surveyed unemployment rate for urban you