> Chinese Paradox -- Jobs scarce for recent graduates in "booming" China
>
> Jobs scarce for China's graduates
> Each year millions of new degree holders vie for few openings. Some
> blame official policy.
> By Mitchell Landsberg, Times Staff Writer
> 3:07 AM PST, December 28, 2006
>
> BEIJING - For the better part of a 20-hour journey, Yu Meng had slept as
> the train jostled and rolled across the north of China.
>
> A broad-faced, cheerful 26-year-old graduate student in chemistry, she
> had come from remote Gansu province to attend a job fair in the capital.
> Now, still bundled in a knee-length brown parka, a clutch of resumes in
> her hand, she was trying to elbow her way to the front of a recruiting
> booth - one of hundreds sprawled across the vast interior of the
> capital's China International Exhibition Center.
>
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