{"id":433684,"date":"2025-09-18T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/433684\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:17:18","slug":"chinas-youth-unemployment-soars-to-2-year-high-as-job-crunch-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/433684\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s youth unemployment soars to 2-year high as job crunch deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s urban youth unemployment rate rose last month to the highest level since the data set was <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/economic-indicators\/article\/3248696\/china-jobs-youth-unemployment-rate-returns-adjusted-stands-149?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">adjusted in 2023<\/a>, as career prospects for young people have weakened amid an economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The jobless rate for those aged 16 to 24, excluding students, rose to 18.9 per cent in August from 17.8 per cent in July, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A record 12.2 million university students graduated this summer, with the majority of them joining a job market strained by deflationary pressures and external uncertainties. Many of them <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3315245\/chinese-graduates-uk-turn-gig-work-amid-job-crunch-it-helps-me-survive?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">are struggling to find roles<\/a> that match their education level and skills.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Maggie Li, a fresh graduate from China\u2019s northern Hebei province, has been job-searching since the beginning of August, after an offer that she had previously accepted was suddenly rescinded without explanation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The hotel management graduate is looking for administration and human resources positions in Beijing and has had seven interviews so far, but none of them have led to a suitable offer for her background.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTwo of the interviews were for roles different from what was originally advertised,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s urban youth unemployment rate rose last month to the highest level since the data set was adjusted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[78925,147362,3801,51,147364,1395,147365,36358,122156,1700,142605,16484,147363,125727,55313,16,15,66146],"class_list":{"0":"post-433684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-august","9":"tag-banan-district","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-cangzhou-city","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese-youth-unemployment","15":"tag-chongqing","16":"tag-deflationary-pressures","17":"tag-economy","18":"tag-hebei-province","19":"tag-job-market","20":"tag-maggie-li","21":"tag-ministry-of-human-resources-and-social-security","22":"tag-national-bureau-of-statistics","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-university-students"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115225496458314379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433684","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=433684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}