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Two members of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political
advisory body, Monday urged the government to take measures to
promote employment of new college graduates and reallocate the
country's compulsory education resources.
Delivering a speech at the third plenary meeting of the ongoing
First Session of the 10th CPPCC National Committee, CPPCC member
Zhao Naiyan pointed out that though China still suffered a shortage
of college graduates, many students graduating from universities
and colleges this year were having difficulty in finding jobs.
"There are many reasons behind this phenomenon. Apart from the
sharp increase in annual students recruitment of Chinese
universities and colleges in recent years, an outdated personnel
system, poor employment service, old-fashioned educational concepts
and methods in colleges, and unrealistic job expectations among the
colleges graduates themselves all contribute to the emergence of
this problem," said Zhao.
He
criticized some universities and colleges for still embracing the
educational mode under the old planned economic system, which
stressed students recruitment but neglected employment prospects
for the graduates. "Some programs and curricula of some colleges
are irrelevant to the actual needs of society," he added.
Zhao urged governments at all levels to further reform the existing
personnel system, lift all restrictions on the employment of new
college graduates, and give complete freedom to enterprises in
hiring employees.
Universities and colleges should also attach strategic importance
to the task of helping their own graduates find jobs, and encourage
their students to abolish inappropriate job-seeking concepts and
willingly go to work in the country's underdeveloped western
regions, rural areas and grassroots units, Zhao said.
In
his speech on behalf of the Central Committee of the China
Democratic League, one of China's eight non-Communist parties,
CPPCC member Wu Zhengde said that it is necessary for the
government to promote "a balanced development of compulsory
education" across the country.
In
China currently, he said, there exists the "unfair phenomenon" that
different schools in different regions are receiving different
treatment at the compulsory education stage.
"Unfairness in compulsory education will undermine social justice,
deprive children born to impoverished families of the equal right
to education, lead to a new form of corruption, and hurt the
sentiments of the younger generations," he stressed.
Stating that the inappropriate distribution of the government's
financial input was a main factor behind the regional imbalance of
compulsory education development, Wu suggested the both the central
and provincial governments increase their educational spending in
those poor and underdeveloped regions, to narrow the regional gap
in the allocation of compulsory education resources.
He
also demanded the government enhance monitoring efforts to ensure
the effective use of compulsory education resources.
(Xinhua News Agency March 10, 2003)
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