A recent survey in eastern China's Shanghai municipality showed
only 1% of the interviewed would like to be blue-collars.
Xinhua News Agency reported the survey covered 4,000 local
households. Most people preferred to seek posts in the government
or at government-run institutions, monopolies, banks and insurance
companies.
"The figure shows that Chinese people are still greatly affected
by traditional values in job hunting. It also indicates there are
problems in the government's work in human resources development,"
said Lin Zeyan, an official with the human resources department
under the development research center of the State Council.
Lin Zeyan made the remarks at an awards ceremony for the China
Human Resources Management Grand Awards on Saturday.
He said the universal shortage of talents at present affects a
great amount of domestic enterprises that are also deficient in
framing a rational structure of talent allocation and establishing
an efficient mechanism to absorb talents.
The problems were discovered in an investigation recently
carried out by Lin's department on the current status and policies
of human resources development in China.
The investigation covered more than 10,000 domestic enterprises
and 60,000 talents across the country.
They are the results of current institutional imperfections and
are natural as the country's human resources development undergoes
a transition period, he added.
"In developed countries such as the United States, 80% of the
talented work for ordinary companies. However, in China, only 30%
do," Lin Zeyan said. In China, the tertiary industry, government
departments and finance businesses absorb the most talents, while
mining and simple manufacturing industries the least.
Lin Zeyan suggested the government make it a strategic priority
to help attract more talents to work for common enterprises.
(CRI April 9, 2007)