People participate in a job fair held in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on March 12, 2016. (Photo/China Youth Daily)
(ECNS) -- Low salaries offered by employers in China are causing distress among returned overseas graduates, China Youth Daily reports.
Zhang Yao, who earned a master's degree from a respected South Korean university, has continued hunting for a job after she rejected several offers with low pay.
"One Korean teacher position offered a basic monthly salary of 1,600 yuan ($245), which makes me feel humiliated because I have no opportunity to show my talents and what I have learned at university," she explained.
Zhang, from North China's Tianjin Municipality, said she pursued the graduate program in South Korea because there were many companies from that country in Tianjin several years ago. But now many have cut jobs in China.
A great number of master's degree graduates who have returned from overseas are experiencing similar disappointments, the report said.
A manager at a State-owned enterprise said some overseas students are impractical when seeking jobs in the domestic market because the company treats local and overseas graduates equally as long as their abilities are satisfactory.
Fresh graduates are under high employment pressure with some 7.65 million flooding the labor market.
Yin Weimin, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, said at a State Council press conference that the workforce population continues to increase, placing additional pressure on job seekers.
"But we still have great confidence in maintaining a stable employment situation and sustainable and healthy economic development," Yin added saying, "The government will also adjust the industrial structure, which will have positive effects on the employment market."
