Joint efforts to encourage students' self-employment

BEIJING, Feb. 10 -- An article in Monday's China

Youth Daily calls for collective efforts from society to help university

graduates in self-employment.

The article says, the Changchun Municipal government

in Northeast China's Jilin Province recently issued a series of preferential

polices to university and professional college graduates who intend to start

their own businesses. The preferential policies include a reduction of sales tax

and government financial fund in bank loans.

However, such favorable conditions met hardly any

enthusiasm from university students. Almost all 30 interviewees from several

local universities gave a negative answer to this issue. The reasons they gave

are very similar: "never thought about it", or "dare not".

According to the article, a lack of education from

both the family and the school is to be blamed. It noted that the idea of

self-employment is rarely mentioned or discussed at home or at school.

Therefore, self-employment is very often neglected by Chinese students when it

comes to career planning. In addition, teachers at higher educational

institutions also lack practical knowledge or experiences and can provide hardly

any help to their students in this regard.

The article calls on parents to change the

traditional ideology and encourage their children to stand on their own.

Educators are urged to make structural changes to curriculum and open special

courses so as to provide professional advices to the students. Government

departments and financial organizations are called on to simplify their

procedures to provide better services and help.

(Source: CRIENGLISH. com)