ABSTRACT
With constant deepening of the policy of reform and opening up in China and the rapid development of the economic society, new development opportunity has also been witnessed in the higher education career. In the past 15 years of expansion in recruitment in colleges and universities, the average gross enrollment rate across the whole country increased to approximately 30% in 2013 from 8% in 1999. In 2013, there was a number of nearly 10 million candidates enrolled for the college entrance examination and the average acceptance rate was up to 75%. On one hand, the source of students for colleges and universities has been on a constant increase. On the other hand, the large scale of graduates gives rise to the huge pressure on employment and increasingly austere employment situation. According to statistics by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (HRSS), the number of graduates in general institutes of higher education across the whole country reached 7 million in 2013, which was the highest over the years, approximately 0.2 million more than in 2012. Nonetheless, it was shown in 2013 in “The Report on Employment among Chinese University Students”, for the past few years, there was approximately a proportion of 10%-15% students each year who were unable to take up an occupation. Thus,
accumulated in this way, the pressure on employment for the years to come will become larger.
