Over 20,000 Applicants Compete for a Job in Tibet Amid China’s Unemployment Crisis

Job hunters pack the Chongqing Springtime Job Fair at Chongqing International Convention and Exhibition Center on Mar. 4, 2007, in Chongqing Municipality, China. China Photos/Getty Images

This year, workers in China have encountered waves of large-scale layoffs. In the latest Chinese civil service exams, a post office in Tibet received the most applications.

Registration for China’s 2022 civil service recruitment ended at 6 p.m. on Oct. 24. According to its official website, the total number of applicants was 2,047,281, and the number of people who passed the audit was 1,859,748, but the total number of recruitment was only 31,200.