By 2021, around 44 million undergraduate students were enrolled in degree programs at public colleges and universities in China, compared to some 4 million at the turn of the century. … "For those without the credentials for college, vocational schools teach nothing and are just another part of the holding pattern," for young people, said Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science, at the University of California, Irvine. "Serious attention needs to be paid to putting the educational system into sync with the jobs on offer," she added.

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