Susan Shirk quoted in China Daily
Workers falling through skills gap
03/09/2010
Daniel Chinoy and Wang Xiaotian,
China Daily
As nation battles to reduce unemployment, analysts say it is shortage of skilled workers, not jobs, that is causing problems. Daniel Chinoy and Wang Xiaotian report from Beijing.
Song Yongliang did everything right. He worked hard, went to college and majored in Russian, which he thought would be practical in his hometown in Northeast China.
In his senior year, he found an internship as a translator and hoped to find a job with a trading company near the Russian border after he graduated in 2008. Then the financial crisis hit.
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