Employment & Education

Chinese government to raise education spending to 4% of GDP

The central government has decided in its budget that government spending on education will account for 4 percent of the country's GDP this year, when deliv

China's Ctrip sees Q4 revenues up 18% in 2011

Ctrip.com's fourth-quarter net revenue in 2011 was 926 million yuan ($147 million), up 18 percent year-on-year, although net profit for the period was 253 m

Taiwan's Hon Hai boss on managing a zoo

Terry Guo, founder of Taiwanese firm Hon Hai, compares his large work force to animals:

A Chinese teenager on begging being preferable to working

A unnamed Chinese teenager explains why he prefers to fake a disability than having a job:

China adds 12m new jobs in 2011

Preliminary statistics show that China created more than 12 million new jobs in cities and towns this year and kept the registered urban unemployment rate b

Chinese students' US expenditure reaches US$4pt4bn

Students from China contributed at least $4.4 billion to the American economy in the school year running from 2010 to 2011, according to a calculation based

400 foreign firms in Shanghai increase wages

Salaries paid by over 400 foreign companies in Shanghai grew an average 11 percent year-on-year, 3.3 percentage points higher than last year's growth, to rea

Survey: Beijing and Shanghai 7th and 8th most expensive places to live in Asia

Beijing and Shanghai are now Asia's seventh and eighth most expensive places to live in and ranking the world's 35th and 41st,  according to the Cost of Livi

China's income gap widens fast

China's annual salary gap ratio between different industries was renewed to 4.2 :1 in 2010.

China to narrow wealth gap

China increased its spending on poverty reduction from 12.75 billion yuan in 2001 to 34.93 billion yuan in 2010, representing an average annual growth rate o

China encourages private companies to hire more

The top 500 Chinese private firms hired about 5.61 million people, up 24.3 percent year-on-year, according to the All China Federation of Industry and Commer

10.58m: The jobs that could be created in China by the growth of the green sector

Source: State Media

Masters in the making

Education is the backbone of any industry – including golf

Li Yan on the hassles of free information

Li Yan, a Chinese university student, on being forced to give up her governmental research:

100: The number of primary schools sponsored by tobacco companies in China

Source: Bloomberg

A migrant mother on her children's education

Wu Fang, a migrant Beijing mother, on changes to migrant educational policy:

Executives enjoy salary bonanza

Following the US policy, China also limited salaries in 2009 to 2.8 million yuan for executives of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) but the policy seems to h

China will begin regulating student test-prep books

China's Ministry of Education will increase regulatory oversight of the publication and distribution of test-prep books for primary and middle school student

Buddy Roemer on Mandarin lessons for Americans

Buddy Roemer, former Louisiana governor and US presidential candidate, on American jobs in China:

Chutes and ladders

A prominent China hand offers a practical guide to avoiding pitfalls in business

Kam Wing Chan on cheap labor dependence outweighing poverty woes

Kam Wing Chan, a University of Washington professor, on China's rural migrants:

Ratio of rural freshmen with CAU falls below 30%

The ratio of students from rural areas enrolling at China's Agricultural University this year has fallen under 30 percent for the first time in the past 10 y

13: Provinces that have raised the minimum wage by over 20% in 2011 so far

Supplying strength

China’s logistics firms should compete on service, not price wars

Incubation period

Startup incubators have flourished in China

Li Qicai on paying people to "suffer" for him

Li Qicai, a Chinese entrepreneur, on paying people US$3 an hour to wait in line:

An American expat on his discovery of a fake Apple store in Kunming

'BirdAbroad', an American ex-pat blogger, on his discovery of a fake Apple store in Yunnan:

1.4m: Applications this year from recent Chinese graduates for 16,000 civil service jobs

Source: BBC News

$1.2m: The funds collected by fraudulent Beijing 'Universities' in a fake diploma scan

Source: State Media

State Council redirects land sale profits to education

The State Council has ordered local governments to direct 10% of their profits from land transfers to education, as China's cabinet seeks mechanisms to fund

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