As economy stutters, China’s youth seek safety of civil service.
BEIJING — As a physics student at the elite Peking University in Beijing, Lynn Lau was expecting big Chinese private sector companies to scour the campus this summer for upcoming talent.
Those jobs are drawing record interest this year even as cash-strapped administrations in some cities cut wages, in a sign that economic weakness in zero-COVID China is becoming endemic. State news agency Xinhua said some posts had as many as 6,000 candidates fighting for them, while the average was around 70 to one.
Finding them jobs will be one of the biggest challenges for the Communist Party, which points to the staggering prosperity China has seen over the past four decades to justify its monopoly on power. However, the exam was due on Dec. 3–4 but has since been postponed due to coronavirus disease 2019 outbreaks and no new date has been announced, adding to the stress.
To this day, families take pride in their children joining the 55 million people state enterprise sector, or the civil service, which according to the latest data in 2015 was more than 7 million strong and is likely much bigger now. It is unclear how widely spread the state sector pay cuts are across China, but provincial governments — hit by the property downturn and COVID costs — are grappling with a $1 trillion budget shortfall this year.
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