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China: Civil service seen as golden rice bowl, as unemployment bites.
Asia Times
HONG KONG
On December 5, the mainland started the long process of recruiting 16,000 civil servants to fill vacancies in central-government departments and institutions, by giving the first set of written exams.
According to state media, 1.41 million candidates had entered their names for the contest, although only 1.03 million actually took the written exams. This means each job vacancy is being chased by 64 candidates. Those who pass the first written exams will have to take more tests, such as oral exams, special skill exams and background checks.
This is the third consecutive year in which over one million candidates enrolled to compete for a central-government job, and the 1.41 million who initially entered their names for the competition represent the highest number since 2003, when China started to recruit civil servants. (In that year, the recruitment only attracted 87,000 candidates.)
But the figure of 1.03 million candidates actually participating in the first exams was 10,000 lower than that of last year. Nearly 400,000 people dropped out, not because they were not interested but because they couldn't meet a new requirement of two years' work experience for most of the jobs.
Xu Xiaonian, a professor of economics and finance at the Shanghai-based China Europe International Business School, has commented that if too many young people want to take up government jobs rather than engage themselves in jobs that create social wealth, China will become a parasitic state.
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Asia Times
HONG KONG
On December 5, the mainland started the long process of recruiting 16,000 civil servants to fill vacancies in central-government departments and institutions, by giving the first set of written exams.
According to state media, 1.41 million candidates had entered their names for the contest, although only 1.03 million actually took the written exams. This means each job vacancy is being chased by 64 candidates. Those who pass the first written exams will have to take more tests, such as oral exams, special skill exams and background checks.
This is the third consecutive year in which over one million candidates enrolled to compete for a central-government job, and the 1.41 million who initially entered their names for the competition represent the highest number since 2003, when China started to recruit civil servants. (In that year, the recruitment only attracted 87,000 candidates.)
But the figure of 1.03 million candidates actually participating in the first exams was 10,000 lower than that of last year. Nearly 400,000 people dropped out, not because they were not interested but because they couldn't meet a new requirement of two years' work experience for most of the jobs.
Xu Xiaonian, a professor of economics and finance at the Shanghai-based China Europe International Business School, has commented that if too many young people want to take up government jobs rather than engage themselves in jobs that create social wealth, China will become a parasitic state.
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