More than 1,000 apply for one job at China family planning agency
Hundreds of thousands now joining annual rush to apply for posts in the Chinese state sector, still seen as steady work amid an increasingly competitive job market
More than 1,000 jobseekers are vying for one vacancy at China’s family planning association as hundreds of thousands enter the country’s annual race for Chinese state sector jobs.
Every year huge numbers of young Chinese take an exam to try to qualify to work in the country’s massive state sector in posts such as tax officers, railway police or staff in the government’s propaganda departments
The most popular job advertised so far this year is in the international cooperation division at the family planning association.
The job had attracted 1,198 applicants by Sunday.
Candidates are required to be proficient in English, preferably having scored high in TOEFL or IELTS language test scores, according to the official job specifications.
The family planning association was set up in the 1980s to help enforce the now abolished one-child policy, with the state-run group now shifting its work away from population control as China faces a shrinking labour force.