China expands vocational training for unemployed graduates

14 articles · Updated · South China Morning Post · Apr 30

Beijing will open six full-time technical-school programmes this year, pairing one year of study with a year-long internship for college graduates.
The push targets jobs in emerging industries including robotics and AI, as authorities try to ease a youth unemployment crisis affecting millions of graduates.
Several cities are adopting similar schemes, but the plan to steer university graduates back into vocational education has met scepticism and backlash from many young people.

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