In March, 19.6 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds were jobless, down slightly from last July’s record of 19.9 percent. Amid record-high youth unemployment, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now explicitly encouraging graduates to consider manual and blue-collar jobs. Few people realized then that that would be a sign of things to come.
Weren’t these highly educated young people wasted on the assembly line? Or did they in fact make the sensible decision, given the job security and competitive pay-roughly 8,300 yuan (around $1,200) a month, compared with a graduate average of 5,800 yuan ($835) a month-at the state-owned tobacco factory?
You don’t need a master’s degree to roll tobacco, so when China Tobacco Henan announced that almost a third of its new factory-floor hires had postgraduate degrees, it triggered a national debate in China.
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