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China Worker Shortage, Xi Telling Kids to Study Manufacturing
- chvid 2y agohttps://archive.ph/FqauO https://archive.ph/FqauO
- chvid 2y agoI believe this stuff is going on all over the developed world. Where people would be better of financially if they became a tradie or a machine specialist rather than getting an academic degree.
- yorwba 2y agoNote that the article says the opposite: "The average monthly income three years after getting an undergraduate degree was 10,168 yuan in 2023, a third higher than vocational school grads" Even if a university graduate spends a year unemployed mooching off their parents before finally landing a cushy office job, three years later they're caught up with people who spent that entire year toiling in a factory. It's the government that's trying to herd people into vocational schools to keep the manufacturing sector supplied with workers even though services are more profitable.