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[quote=APAULT,271858]Never have I agreed so much with the previous posters!

We do have the same issues in many countries.

China is turning out too many substandard BA students who believe they are well educated, whereas they are  really ready for clerical work. I work in a second tier private university where students can pay to come if they didn't have the marks to enter government unis.  They are all lovely young people, but their English Major degrees are not much use to industry.  A simple improvement would be to introduce combined courses of something and English, such as Business, Engineering, computers or whatever.  Even so we are turning out too many BA graduates without their being enough jobs.  There are also many employers blatantly ignoring the Labour Laws and exploiting their workers.  So yes it is very tough on the young as as JC says, it is a potentially explosive situation.

As an aside: will foreign newspapers ever learn that it is meaningless to quote wages in their own currency and context.  China is still a developing economy and we cannot expect the same levels of wages - but prices are also much lower and basic accommodation is often provided free.

The base rate for paying income tax is about to be raised from 1600rmb to 2000rmb a month in March.  This will exclude over 70% of the workforce, so we get some idea of typical incomes.[/quote]

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