{"id":356738,"date":"2025-08-19T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356738\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:07:10","slug":"chinas-youth-unemployment-hits-11-month-high-as-army-of-graduates-joins-job-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356738\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s youth unemployment hits 11-month high as army of graduates joins job hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s youth unemployment rate rose to its highest level in 11 months in July, as a record number of graduates enter an already shaky labour market.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The urban jobless rate for the 16-24 age group, excluding students, rose to 17.8 per cent last month from 14.5 per cent in June, putting an end to four straight months of decline and marking the metric\u2019s highest level since last August, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The figures come as a record 12.2 million university students <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3318599\/chinas-job-market-preps-impact-record-graduate-wave-approaches?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">graduate this summer<\/a>, with a majority of them joining a sizeable applicant pool that has had trouble finding open positions that meet their education and skill levels.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In recent months, Beijing has launched a string of initiatives to aid graduates and other young people as they seek employment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For instance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security is running a campaign from July to December to support jobless youth and college graduates with services such as career guidance sessions, referrals and training opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>But unemployment among this age cohort remains high, fuelled by a mismatch between jobs and expectations in a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3317748\/why-chinas-white-and-blue-collar-workers-are-worried-about-losing-their-shirts?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">challenging economic environment<\/a> where domestic demand has yet to make up for shortfalls in traditional growth sectors like real estate.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe market is quite rough,\u201d said He Yue, a computer science graduate currently based in Beijing. After receiving her diploma from a university in Chongqing, she has spent over two months looking for a suitable job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s youth unemployment rate rose to its highest level in 11 months in July, as a record number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[3801,51,1395,69870,115247,36358,1700,50506,125728,59243,125727,55313,3715,16,15,66146,125729,105041],"class_list":{"0":"post-356738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-china-employment","12":"tag-china-jobs","13":"tag-chongqing","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-hangzhou","16":"tag-he-yue","17":"tag-july","18":"tag-ministry-of-human-resources-and-social-security","19":"tag-national-bureau-of-statistics","20":"tag-real-estate","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-university-students","24":"tag-urban-jobless-rate","25":"tag-youth-unemployment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115055351852029481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}