In recent years, the large-scale enrollment expansion of colleges and universities has brought about a huge increase in the supply of labor for college students, which is obviously one of the important reasons for the difficulty of employment for college students. Although the government has repeatedly stressed to curb the "wind of enrollment expansion", its strong inertia can only be stopped today, and it cannot be stopped in a hurry. Correspondingly, in recent years, the criticism of higher education from all walks of life is endless. According to the Financial Times, a report by consulting firm McKinsey said that despite the large number of graduates, China lacks trained graduates, which may hinder China's economic growth and the development of more advanced industries.
Now the production chain of industrial system can be simply divided into three interrelated parts: scientific research and innovation-manufacturing and processing-sales and service. Obviously, personnel engaged in upstream scientific and technological research and development generally need higher education and long-term practical experience because they need considerable professional and technical knowledge and accumulation; Personnel engaged in downstream sales and services need considerable brand management and business theory literacy, and usually need systematic study and training in the university education system; It is only an intermediate link, and the labor force engaged in simple reproduction such as manufacturing and processing has less strict requirements for higher education.
At present, China is committed to becoming a "world manufacturing factory" and has been developing labor-intensive industries for many years. This development makes the newly created jobs mostly labor-intensive jobs at the bottom of the international division of labor. This kind of position doesn't need college graduates so much. After simple training, most "migrant workers" can do it, as long as you can work more than 12 hours a day, and do not require any labor security and welfare. For a large number of products of various foreign brands, the details are marked as "MADEINCHINA". They need highly trained high-paid and high-end talents, mainly focusing on design research and development, brand promotion and after-sales service, but most of these positions are completed by their own labor.
In other words, under the guidance of the theory of comparative advantage, China has basically "surrendered" in high-end fields such as scientific research, innovative technology and independent brand building in recent years. Blindly following international capital, China's economy is integrated into the international industrial division system, but it is placed at the bottom of this pyramid. To a certain extent, although the transfer of rural labor force has short-term benefits, high-end jobs, the so-called "white-collar" jobs are becoming less and less, and even become seriously scarce.
Of course, with the acceleration of the transfer of multinational companies and international capital industries, they are also "transplanting" R&D and sales to China, and hiring domestic college students-that is, "white-collar workers in foreign companies" who are favored by Chinese people. However, in the long run, the number of jobs that these jobs can accept is relatively stable, and their growth rate and speed are limited, and they tend to hire workers who are proficient in foreign languages and have considerable work experience, which is "far from water and near thirst" for newly graduated college students.
From the long-term development of the country, the scarcity of high-end talent positions may be a serious problem that causes the country's lack of development stamina. The core competitiveness of a country will eventually be implemented in the competition for talents. At present, the brain drain of many state-owned enterprises is increasing, which is actually caused by the industrial development model that we are willing to "work" for transnational capital and do not pay attention to cultivating the competitiveness of high-end industries. The author believes that the employment of college students is not only an educational issue, but also related to the long-term development of the country. (End)