Urban management positions attract quality applicants
Masters graduates have featured strongly in the most recent round of recruitment by Shanghai Qingpu district’s urban management department. 180 people were selected to interview for 60 urban management positions and many of the selectees were had degrees from well-known universities. Some had overseas study backgrounds, 119 held postgraduate degrees, and two had doctoral degrees.
Source: China Daily
URL: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-05/09/content_16488699.htm
Editor’s note: Urban management officers(so called “Chengguan” in Chinese) have a bad reputation for their violent enforcement of regulations, and their bad treatment of street vendors. The news that graduates with doctoral degrees applied for this position aroused heated discussion on the internet. Urban management staff in Shanghai receive the same remuneration as civil servants, which is regarded as the most important factor that attracted so many university graduates to apply for these limited positions in recent years. At the same time, government departments hope that by recruiting higher quality university graduates, they may change the reputation of urban management officers in the future.
