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Returning students target companies for top job prospects

By Zhao Xinying | China Daily | Updated: 2016-03-26 07:57

Companies remain a top employment choice among Chinese students returning from overseas study, while those wanting to start their own businesses are the minority, a study has found.

Two-thirds of the Chinese students polled expressed their willingness to work at companies after coming back - 29 percent hope to enter foreign-invested corporations, 20 percent prefer State-owned enterprises and 17 percent favor private ones.

Lower in popularity are public institutions, higher education or research institutes, according to the 2015 Blue Book on the Employment of Chinese Students Returning from Study Overseas, which was released on Friday by the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange under the Ministry of Education.

The blue book also found that 3.3 percent of students returning from overseas want to become entrepreneurs.

"It in fact marks a 1 percentage-point rise compared with the data in the 2014 Blue Book, though it sounds a small proportion," said Xu Peixiang, deputy director of the center.

In recent years, more and more Chinese students who went to study abroad have come back to seek employment after graduation. Statistics from the Education Ministry showed that in 2015 a total of 409,000 students came back, while the number in 2010 was only 135,000.

The ever-rising figures have caused more people to pay attention to the employment situation of returning students, Xu said.

Nearly half of the students polled wish to work in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. But the proportion has dropped 8 percentage points since 2013, the blue book said.

Qi Mo, chief editor of the blue book, said the drop may have something to do with the recent restrictions on employment and residency in these cities, which used to be the most popular destinations for students returning from overseas because of their openness and the employment and entrepreneurial opportunities.

"However, as these cities started to implement restrictive policies after the population has gotten too big, although they are still relatively open and friendly to students returning from overseas, some may have felt the squeeze and have decided to consider other cities."

zhaoxinying@chinadaily.com.cn

Returning students target companies for top job prospects

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