Beijing has pledged to expand vocational training for young jobseekers this year, as it looks to help millions of unemployed graduates find work in emerging industries such as robotics and AI.<\/p>\n
But the policy drive \u2013 which includes plans to encourage university graduates to return to technical school \u2013 has drawn mixed reactions from a generation already hit hard by China\u2019s youth unemployment crunch.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security vowed on Tuesday to upskill 1 million young people, focusing on areas such as artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, the low-altitude economy<\/a> and new energy vehicles.<\/p>\n Several cities are already doing so. Beijing, for instance, is launching six full-time programmes for college graduates at technical schools this year, combining one year of classroom study with a year-long internship.<\/p>\n While officials say these programmes primarily target unemployed graduates, the policy push has triggered widespread scepticism online among young people struggling in a strained job market<\/a>.Some questioned the value of traditional academic degrees \u2013 which have long been seen as a prerequisite for social mobility in China \u2013 suggesting that skipping university for vocational training<\/a> would save both time and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beijing has pledged to expand vocational training for young jobseekers this year, as it looks to help millions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8580,45,49,48,95,25800,46,22850,239033,21736,239034,153027,14011,12051],"class_list":["post-640568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-economy","tag-guangzhou","tag-melos-chou","tag-ministry-of-human-resources-and-social-security","tag-unemployed-graduates","tag-university-graduates","tag-vocational-training","tag-youth-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}