GUANGZHOU: It is getting more difficult for university graduates to find a job in South China's Guangdong Province, according to the latest official statistics on the labor market.

About 229,000 new graduates registered with employment agents in Guangdong in the second quarter of this year, which was up nearly 27,100, or 13.4 percent, from the first quarter. That figure was up roughly 134,100, or 141 percent, from the corresponding period of last year.

Guangdong's department of labor and social security released the quarterly figures on labor conditions on Tuesday.