This is what many of my students face as they graduate from college: a China where six million university graduates fight for the same jobs. A China where the average salary for a migrant worker (blue collar job) has increased 80 percent since 2003 and the college graduates' salary has stayed the same.
Chinese sociologists have come up with a new term for educated young people who move in search of work like Ms. Liu: the ant tribe. It is a reference to their immense numbers — at least 100,000 in Beijing alone — and to the fact that they often settle into crowded neighborhoods, toiling for wages that would give even low-paid factory workers pause.
“Like ants, they gather in colonies, sometimes underground in basements, and work long and hard,”1
Read the full article from The New York Times.
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1The New York Time By ANDREW JACOBS Published: December 11, 2010
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