From the Chinese Press

Survey could be misleading

About 61 percent of the post-1990s college graduates who responded to a survey in 2013 said they would voluntarily leave first-tier cities for second- or third-tier ones to work, whereas only 46 percent were willing to do so in 2011. The actual situation is different from what the survey suggests, says an article on gmw.cn. Excerpts:

Beijing, for example, had about 229,000 college graduates in 2013. Even if it is true that "six in every 10 graduates chose to leave the city", the capital - after deducting local Beijing students - still had about 20,000 post-1990s non-Beijing graduates living in the city. The survey, in this sense, ignores the fact that graduates rush to metropolises to build their careers.