{"id":251659,"date":"2026-01-22T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/251659\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:04:07","slug":"chinas-youth-unemployment-rate-falls-slightly-in-december-as-beijing-pledges-more-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/251659\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s youth unemployment rate falls slightly in December as Beijing pledges more support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The jobless rate for those aged 16 to 24, excluding students, fell to 16.5 per cent last month from 16.9 per cent in November, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That figure has eased since August after a record 12.2 million university students graduated over the summer, pushing the jobless rate to 18.9 per cent \u2013 the highest level since students were excluded from the data in December 2023. In June that year, youth unemployment had hit a headline-grabbing 21.3 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Jobs for college graduates and migrant workers featured prominently on the agenda of the central economic work conference on December 10 and 11, when the Chinese leadership gathered to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/policy\/article\/3290090\/what-chinas-central-economic-work-conference-and-why-does-it-matter?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">discuss the status of the economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hu Kexin, who studies French at a university in Beijing and minors in accounting, said finding a job was \u201cdefinitely hard\u201d despite securing six internships.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI have a heavy course load every semester, and I really have to rack my brain to rearrange my schedule so I can make time for internships,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI realised that spending another two or three years at university would be a waste of time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jobless rate for those aged 16 to 24, excluding students, fell to 16.5 per cent last month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5560,114,100803,1657,100804,8357,21694,184,134154,134153,85,46,134155,4863,4864,132972,23310,16643,2844,17206,134152,9444],"class_list":{"0":"post-251659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-central-economic-work-conference","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chinese-leadership","13":"tag-college-graduates","14":"tag-deflationary-pressures","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-foreign-consulting-firm","17":"tag-hu-kexin","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-ivy-league-schools","21":"tag-job-market","22":"tag-labour-market","23":"tag-liao-min","24":"tag-migrant-workers","25":"tag-national-bureau-of-statistics","26":"tag-unemployment-rate","27":"tag-university-students","28":"tag-wang-xiaoping","29":"tag-xinhua"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}