Shanghai Municipal Employment Promotion Center has conducted a survey on the general public's enthusiasm for starting their own career, covering some 23,000 responders aged between 16 and 64.

In the survey, 5.01% of the responders say that they are already on their way of starting their own careers, especially the highly-educated youths. About 22.6% of postgraduate responders show great interest in opening their own businesses.

 

The survey also shows that the market environment is more active than in 2005, particularly in a community perspective. What's more, gender gap in the venture market has kept narrowing.

 

Similar surveys have been also conducted in Beijing and Shenzhen, finding that 3.42% of Beijingers and 10.49% of Shenzheners are likely to start their own careers.

 

The high unemployment rate of college graduates also prompts the young people to set up their own businesses, rather than search high and low jobs. The statistics also show that young people between 25 and 44 are the most prone to starting careers of their own, taking up some 7% of the job hunters. The survey also finds that some youths between 16 and 24 have already started their own career, too.

 

(Chinanews.cn February 27, 2007)