Guideline to help 2025 grads find jobs

As China braces for a record number of university graduates in 2025, authorities are ramping up efforts to address increasingly flagging youth unemployment, according to the Ministry of Education.

On Thursday, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security held a joint meeting in Beijing to coordinate employment and entrepreneurship efforts for next year's university graduates. Statistics indicate that the number of graduates from regular higher education institutions — those requiring students to sit the national college entrance examination, or gaokao — is expected to reach 12.22 million next year, an increase of 430,000 compared with this year.

The Ministry of Education has launched multiple initiatives to direct local governments and universities to implement supportive measures for youth employment. Since September, universities and local authorities have held 55,000 recruitment events offering 10.93 million jobs.