Can China fix youth unemployment woes with military recruitment drive?

27 Jun, 2023

More than 90 per cent of this year?s recruitment to the?Chinese military?could be drawn from fresh graduates and high school students, in a bid to meet the People?s Liberation Army?s?modernisation?targets and ease the country?s record?youth unemployment.

A source close to the military, who asked not to be identified, said the target represented a 10 per cent increase on average student recruitment rates of previous years.

Read the full story on South China Morning Post

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