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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Laurie Chen

Chinese graduates lower their ambitions in moribund jobs market

FILE PHOTO: Graduates, including students who could not attend last year due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, attend a graduation ceremony at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei province, China June 13, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo CHINA OUT.

Applied maths graduate Liang Huaxiao tried to land a job with one of China's tech giants for two years. Then she tried customer service and sales. Then she applied for assistant roles in a bakery and in a beauty parlour.

Like a rising number of her highly educated peers, Liang keeps trading down to try and find a source of income in China's worst youth job market on record.

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