“Desperate Young Chinese Flock to Temples for Jobs Amid Economic Slowdown and Rising Unemployment”

Trip.com, a travel booking platform, revealed that Temple tourism is up 30% in 2023 compared to 2022, with about half of the tourists born after 1990. but does not provide the overall number. or compared to before the outbreak of COVID-19

“Wang Xiaoning”, a 22-year-old Chinese, is one of 11.58 million students who have just graduated and face a job market that is full of bias. Effect of lockdown measuresCOVID-19 As well as cracking down on China’s tech industry and education, she said she was pressured to find work and housing prices were out of reach.

“I hope to find peace from the temples,” Wang said.

however youngChinese 1 in 5 people with a record high of graduates stillunemployed

Zhang Qidi, a researcher at the Center for International Financial Studies, said: Chinahave supplystudenttoo many university graduates And with the importance of this group is survival. Many people turn to work as a delivery driver or a delivery job instead.

China’s Ministry of Labor and Education were not immediately available for comment.

however An education ministry official previously said the number of students completing master’s and doctoral degrees in Beijing has increased. more than first-time bachelor’s degree students

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Many young Chinese people on social media Compare yourself with “Gong Yi Ji”, an unemployed drunken scholar. which is a character in the 1919 literature of the writer Lu Hsin.

Gong believes that He graduated high to work humble. The meme was widely discussed. Because users on social media are asking questions.

“Why does society value education? If not, it is guaranteed that they will have a job.”

Character ‘Gong Yi Ji’

A 25-year-old Chinese man who did not want to be named, graduated fromdegreeMaster in Zhejiang Province And who has applied for an average of 10 jobs a day since February, says she feels like Gong is limited by her level of education.

“I don’t believe that I will get the job I hoped. I often had to see a psychiatrist because I was very anxious and stressed.” She said she was offered a salary of 2,000-3,000 yuan a month, or some jobs required unreasonable overtime. and she declined those jobs.

“If I don’t have this degree, I could be a salesman in a department store and I would be happier,” she said.

“Yang Xiaoshang” graduated economics student in Beijing. Agreeing to become a bank teller after 30 interviews, she felt relieved but not very satisfied. “I don’t look down on service work. But I think it’s not worth the knowledge I’ve learned.” Yang said

CCTV, Chinese government media Came out to blame people who compared themselves to the character Kong. Through the Weibo application, “Gong Yi Ji is in a difficult situation. Because he can’t let go of the academics. and unwilling to change themselves with the labor market.”

Then a lot of angry comments erupted. By one comment with more than 300 likes retorting that

“Why, instead of helping to develop a private organization? Instead, you blame the 11.58 million newly graduated students for not taking off the high school seniors?”