More than 40,000 students swarm the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing Friday, when the city's largest job fair before the Spring Festival holiday was launched. The one-day event offers up to 14,600 vacancies. [CRI]

Over 40,000 people flocked into an exclusive job fair for post-graduates Friday in Beijing. Showing their student ID cards, each student gets a ticket free of charge.

It is the largest job fair in the capital before the Spring Festival, which falls on February 14 this year, according to the organizers. About 720 employers have set up stalls at the one-day event that offers some 14,600 jobs.

Since China's economy has seen a stronger performance, the job market is also showing signs of recovery.

"Based on our statistics, this year the total number of job vacancies is larger than that of 2009, up 5 percent from last year," said Lu Lin, the director of the college graduates' employment office of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security.

More than 40,000 students swarm the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing Friday, when the city's largest job fair before the Spring Festival holiday was launched. The one-day event offers up to 14,600 vacancies. [CRI]

As for Beijing, more than 219,000 college graduates, including 67,000 post graduates, will enter the job market in 2010. The demand for jobs generated by those new graduates and the supply of vacancies will roughly reach a balance this year, said Lu.

However, many people from outside the city are seeking jobs there in addition to the students studying at Beijing's universities.

Xu Jie, a medical student from eastern China's Shandong Province, is one of those hunting jobs in the capital. She told CRIENGLISH.com she loves Beijing and believes it's a city offering many opportunities.

But competition for those opportunities is very fierce in the city.

"Within the first hour after the job fair opened at 9 a.m., we accepted dozens of resumes," said Fang Xiaodong, the general manager of the Beijing Winner Hydraulic Technology Corporation, a privately-owned high-tech enterprise in Beijing.

Fang and his company have attended the job fair for five consecutive years. They are offering six posts this year, more than last year.

The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security has held job fairs of this kind annually since 1999. A total of 240,000 candidates as well as 4,300 employers have participated in the events over the past decade.

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