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Students crowded the job fair held in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, on Nov. 29, 2008.

Students crowded the job fair held in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, on Nov. 29, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)
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BEIJING, Dec. 2 -- The global financial crisis is having a major impact on the job market. Over six million Chinese students graduated this year, and the Education Ministry has announced measures to create more jobs for them.

Graduates who choose to work in remote and rural areas for a required period will be exempt from paying college tuition fees and the government will pay off their education loans. The government will also recruit over 30,000 college graduates to teach in rural schools in western regions.

Meanwhile, the army will absorb more college students.

Students queen up at the job fair held in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, on Nov. 29, 2008. Around 40,000 graduated students from 28 schools in the three provinces in northeast China and north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region came to the job fair held in Changchun. (Xinhua/Xu Jiajun)
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(Source: CCTV.com)

Chinese university graduates feel pains of global financial crisis

BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- For Jin Zhenghao, this November has been the most stressful month in his 25 years of life.

A financial engineering major at Xiamen University in southeast China's Fujian Province, Jin is desperately trying to find a job before graduating in June 2009.

November is when the school gave him time to market himself to potential employers. Jin has sent resumes to nearly 30 companies, resulting in five interviews. So far, he has received no job offers. Full story

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Statistics from the Ministry of Education shows that this year a record number of 5.59 million people will graduate from Chinese universities, before joining the fight for jobs with over 700,000 job seekers who graduated last year and are still unemployed, the website of People's Daily reports. Full story