It is very readily to read this article about China and even about my past. I was the graduate of 2003 and joined the job-hunting in the winter of 2002 and the spring of 2003.

     In my opinion, the article reported a lot of thoughtful information, however as an outsider, or to be exact, as an observer and analyst. As the product of the Chinese education system, I have my own thoughts about the whole picture.

     First, China is a communist country and bears its unique eastern culture which is quite different from that of western countries. Although China is under the way of developing and absorbing many elements of marketing which is characterized as western, she still has a long way to go. One example is in the old tertiary, the graduates didn’t do job-hunting; instead, they were arranged into different nation-owned industry to work. After many years of revising, by the time I graduated, we can choose wherever we want to work. Universities have a lot of job fairs but lack of services like career counselling, internships and etc.

     Second, the article reports the multinational companies in China who desperately want their employees speak fluent English language. For a graduate works at national company, English is not a necessary requirement.

  In the end, I do wish China could have more great universities for more talented young people, for both education and re-education. Also, I hope the secondary education no more target on exam, the educators and teachers should really consider what the youth could do in the future.

China's looming talent shortage

• If China's economy is to go on growing and its base is to evolve from manufacturing to services, it will require a huge number of qualified university graduates.
• While university graduates are plentiful there, new MGI research shows that only a small proportion of them have the skills required for jobs further up the value chain—and competition for these graduates is becoming fierce.
• China must undertake a long-term effort to raise the quality of its graduates by changing the way it finances its universities, revamping curriculums to meet the needs of industry, and improving the quality of English-language instruction.
• China could emerge as a base for IT and business process offshoring, but unless the country addresses its looming labor shortage now the global ambitions of Chinese companies will probably be stymied.