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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Rebecca BAILEY

BIZARRE: China making youth unemployment a top priority - You Need To See This

'It's difficult to find a job that matches your degree and aspirations,' one of the fair's young jobseekers told AFP (Credit: AFP)

At a job fair for soon-to-be graduates in central Shanghai, recruiters sat bored under washed-out tarpaulins as rain and an apparent lack of interest kept potential young employees away.

The empty seats belied China's stubbornly high youth unemployment rate -- a problem so pressing that President Xi Jinping this week told top Communist Party (CCP) cadres it should be a "top priority".

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