College students deliver resumes as New Year gift

Greeting families and friends during Chinese New Year is a tradition in China. Most college students would join their parents and visit their relatives bearing New Year gifts. However, some college students prepared a special gift this year – their resumes.

Liu Weijie, a senior student of Huazhong Normal University, received 24 red envelopes all containing job information. "I did not get any money, but this information is the best gift I've ever received." He said. He also revealed that some of his classmates made an agreement to collect and share the information.

Lu, a college student in Wuhan, said he would like to give his resume as a New Year gift to his friends and relatives in order to widen his possibilities of finding a job. According to Lu, all his concentration is not on how to have fun in holidays but on those recruitment fairs to be held in Wuhan.

According to official statistics, this year's graduates will number 6.1 million, but there are still 1 million and 1.5 million graduates of 2008 and 2009 not working. Experts warned college graduates to use the winter holiday to "recharge" and give themselves a competitive advantage in the job market.

By People's Daily Online