Grads lowering their ambitions


BEIJING: 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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