State interests or personal desires: Job placements of college graduates in China

In: Asian thought & society: an international review, Band 10, Heft 28, S. 1-12

Abstract

In a planned economy such as the PRC, college and university graduates are assigned by their schools to positions of employment as part of an overall state policy for the unified placement and "rationalization" of job assignment. The procedures used in making the job assignments are described and the issues surrounding the implementation of these policies and practices analysed. In an effort to develop a climate of opinion in which college and university graduates will accept the job assignments given to them by their schools, the Communist Party aims at strengthening its leadership over the ideological and political education of students. (DÜI-Sen)