China's youth unemployment at 18.4%

[hullexile]

In Shenzhen and Dongguan, the local youths are rich or parents are business owners so don't care about unemployment.

All of them ? Utopia in China

[SirNotAppearing]

Consider that some young people have yet to reach working age, too.

[Morrison]

All of them ? Utopia in China

Someone enlighten user lightse please

[aw451]

Consider that some young people have yet to reach working age, too.

In general kids and students are not counted in unemployment statistics.

[lighthse003]

I saw many young people from elsewhere being hawkers without licenses in the northern parts of sz, self employed without records are unemployed by offcial definition.

It is not hard to be employed for the young people in mainland china if they can accept low salary. Employers highly preferred young than old for jobs not requring university degrees. Fewer middle age and old waiters and security staff than you see in hk.

[drumbrake]

The Chinese government should take lessons from the UK government of the 1980s on how to 'reduce' the number of youths appearing in the unemployment figures.

[GentleGeorge]

The Chinese government should take lessons from the UK government of the 1980s on how to 'reduce' the number of youths appearing in the unemployment figures.

Smashing the unions, privatizing state owned companies and deregulating the economy?

[drumbrake]

Smashing the unions, privatizing state owned companies and deregulating the economy?

I meant fiddling the statistics, but on second thoughts the Chinese government are already masters at that.

[MABinPengChau]

The Chinese government should take lessons from the UK government of the 1980s on how to 'reduce' the number of youths appearing in the unemployment figures.

In the US we decided to reduce our numbers by deciding that if you are no longer looking for work (as in, it's totally hopeless and there are no jobs) then you are not "unemployed" because we can only count those actively seeking work! You would be amazed how many people you can stop counting this way...

[hullexile]

The Chinese government should take lessons from the UK government of the 1980s on how to 'reduce' the number of youths appearing in the unemployment figures.

At work in the UK in the 1980s I had 9 large excel spreadsheets that fed into the master production scheduling spreadsheet. Then at the bottom of that sheet were hidden lines called "seasonally adjusted due to school leavers" in honour of government manipulation of data where I could put in what I wanted the data to say before it was fed into the mainframe to spew out purchasing demands.