Why tens of thousands of Young Chinese university grads move to Tibet every years?

Choni Tsutrim

6/8/2010

Here are some of the truths why we got 8-9 million Chinese across Tibet and still keeping flooding into country ( Tibet) wherever there is a nice empty spot they build houses, town, city and treat Tibetans miserably.

Here is what is going on in China.



Chinese media recently reported that the employment rate for high school grads over the past few years is steady at roughly 72%. This is in stark contrast to the employment rates for university grads. Up to the end of 2008, over one million university graduates were unemployed with increasing financial pressure on their daily living expenses due to ballooning inflation. Nearly 70% of them consider job-hunting to be their main focus each day.

In a survey titled “Status of Unemployed University Graduates” at Huadong Normal University, investigated the population of unemployed university grads in Shanghai.

The research showed that 68.1% of these unemployed grads made job-hunting their primary mission every day; 43.3% of them used leisure time to self-study or attend various training programs to increase their skills. Compared with unemployed universities graduates whose household registration was in Shanghai, those who came from other places had a much harder life. They lived in the cheapest hotels away from their families and schools, hoping to make a living for themselves in Shanghai.

The job application and interview process also strained these grads both mentally and physically, often leaving them depressed: 57.1% reported extreme fatigue; 40.1% reported to have lost sight of their goals; and 22.6% were disappointed with their lives. The main financial support for this group comes from their families. They fear being associated with the “Child Moocher Group“. They do not intend to rely on their families, and feel a strong sense of shame with having to rely on their parents. One grad commented, “I regret that I have to rely on them so much, because my parents are old and might get sick someday. Yet I am still not able to earn my own living and have to rely on them.” This sense of guilt adds a lot of extra pressure on them.

The social tendencies of these unemployed university graduates seem to be relatively anti-social. The report indicated that 59.3% of them seldom talked to others because there was nobody they could pour their hearts out to. One grad said, “Back in school, there were many classmates and friends around. Now everyone is busy with their own lives. Only I stay at home so I don’t say much every day. I can’t talk with my parents about many things either...”

According to the report, the majority of the unemployed university graduates are quite certain about their own social status. Out of those surveyed, 63.8% of them thought they belonged to the level between elite and ordinary laborers, 28.8% considered themselves to be amongst ordinary laborers. Only 7.4% deemed themselves to be elite. As far as salary was concerned, 48.5% would accept a salary range between 1,001 and 2,000 yuan ($143 to $286) a month, which is much lower than the recommended salary for university graduates in 2009 published by the Shanghai government. Unemployed university graduates dwell in coastal cities as they believe these are the places with the most opportunities.