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"Job vacancies in our oil field are open to the public. This year, we have signed labor contracts with more than 1,000 graduates, nearly 90 percent of whom are not the children of employees."

Xia Keming, an official with the human resources department of Daqing Oilfield in Heilongjiang province, in a Beijing News report on Friday. Several hundred employees have held protests since early April after the company required their children to attend extra training sessions before landing a job at the oil field.