Graduates from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology attend the graduation ang degree conferral ceremony at the Optics Valley Gymnasium of HUST in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China on June 24, 2009. About 6,800 graduates attended this three-hour ceremony. Chinese college graduates witnessed a drop in both their employment rate and salary last year compared with 2007, according to a report on their employment situation in 2008 released on June 10.