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  • As the coronavirus continues to take its toll around the world, University students are graduating into the toughest job market in decades.

  • In China, the pandemic has already cost tens of millions of jobs.

  • In February, unemployment in cities soared to a record high of 6.2%.

  • Now, this summer, more than eight million Chinese graduates are preparing to enter the worst job market in recent memory.

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  • Seeing Joshua Biello Lynn has been looking for work since May, when her previous internship ended.

  • She wants to work at a tech company doing operations and was hoping for a smooth job search.

  • But like many people her age, she's had trouble finding work to come down here.

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  • Lynn spends most of her days at home studying and applying for jobs, and she's not alone.

  • One recent study by Peking University found that the number of open positions shrank by 27% in the first three months of this year compared to last year.

  • Ah, popular Chinese recruitment site Shop in said job openings were down 17% from last year.

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  • This is Kathy Han.

  • She runs a popular forum for job seeking graduates on the Chinese social media site Way Bo.

  • Right now, the economic growth rate in China is jobs were slow down on during this period.

  • We have the trade war.

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  • Many companies are infected by this.

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  • I see their huge degrees right now.

  • They're lay off their employees.

  • They don't have new openings.

  • They're actually not running at the moment to cope.

  • Many students air settling for internships or considering grad school.

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  • Hugo Long has been looking for jobs since September.

  • The 22 year old University of Hong Kong graduate hopes toe work in advertising and has five internships under his belt.

  • He thought finding work would be easy, but because of the coronavirus, fewer companies are hiring fresh graduates.

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  • Jo Josina my on the side of the hard part, Of course, Ronald analysts say this year's graduates are in for a tough ride, especially because more young people than ever have college degrees in China.

  • In 1998 1 in 10 people aged 18 to 22 attended university.

  • Now it's more than 40% making the job market more competitive than ever.

  • One economist estimates about a quarter of college graduates in China, about 2.2 million people may be jobless this year, huh?

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  • I hope when we already seeing ISS, is there gonna be more competitive later this year for 2020 autumn recruitment period to have more and more gradual ways.

  • Some people, they didn't get a job earlier this year.

  • They will still look for opportunities later this year, so the competition is gonna be very severe.

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As the coronavirus continues to take its toll around the world, University students are graduating into the toughest job market in decades.

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