Unemployment in China: to a Social Crisis?

Few times in this blog, we described the situation in China for fresh graduates and also unemployment in general.

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The last few weeks, the global crisis has affected terribly the creation of jobs in China, scaring students, employees, employers, fresh graduates...
According to Zhang Chewei, Doctor in the Beijing University in Science and Social School, the unemployment is over the first estimation: the unemployment in China would be around 9.4 %, twice more than the official number.
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Fresh graduates will be pushed to work in the Western and poorer Province in China, where Engineers are missing, and also to join some Research project in University. The number of Fresh graduates increase more than the number of new emploment. The GuangZhou daily has reported that an Agent which searches for cleaners and babysitters has received thousands of students' CV.

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In GuangDong, 600,000 workers may have been back in 2008 according to Huang Yunlong, Vice Governor of the Province. In China, 10 millions of migrants over 130 millions estimated, may have been back to their hometown in 2008, due to unemployment issues in Eastern and South of China.

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Authorities are now afraid of a wave of unrest in 2009 as we talked previously in this article. It will be a priority for the Chinese government to find a job quickly for these millions of Chinese People if they want to avoid thousands of social manifestations in the coming months. Many examples are given everyday about people loosing their jobs, losing their houses, or going back in their hometown...