Source: the 12th edition of People’s Daily on April 7th, 2011

Author: Jiang Hongbin, He Linping (Excerpt)

The job-hunting season comes with the spring, but what is quite different from the previous year is that in this year more and more university graduates from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou leave for the 2nd and 3rd tier cities to find jobs.

The fierce competition, skyrocketing housing price and difficulties to settle down challenge those who ever hold fast to “BSG”(short for Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou ), and now they have more realistic life orientation and broader mind.

Editor

Institutions of Higher Education

How is the employment situation this year? No clear answer yet at present but a new trend comes to front that some graduates from first-class universities no longer confine themselves to BSG for their first job. They are exploring a wider world.

Yue Jun, the deputy director of Vocational Counsel Center in Sun Yat-sen University, told us that“so far, over 50% of the employed graduates get their job in middle-sized and small cities outside Guangzhou, or out of the Pearl River Delta, and some even go to western provinces of China, and the figure appears to be growing.”

Graduates

Why do we leave at length?

Pan Yongdi is a graduate from Sun Yat-sen University who fully agree with it. He has got several job opportunities in Guangzhou, but he finally chose to go back home and work in Bank of China Baise Branch. To him, staying in Guangzhou is good, but going back home seems to be much wiser.

"Those jobs opportunities I got in Guangzhou are limited in development space, while back in Baise working as a business dealer, I strongly feel my hometown eager for talents and enjoys a better working environment and a more comfortable life.”

The Reporter finds that those graduates leaving BSG give priority to places close to their hometowns, for they can better look after the families as well as receiving more support from the parents.