In a new measure that forms part of the central government’s Go West policy, graduates who find jobs in towns and villages in central and western China will have their tuition refunded. Chen Guangjin of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences told China Daily that this was the first time the state had offered to refund tuition in this way.
New graduates are finding it increasingly difficult to find work. Of China’s 10m new graduates in 2008, more than one in eight had failed to find a job by the end of the year.