How to offer jobs to its ever-expanding army of graduates has become a particularly thorny issue for the country, especially at a time when China's economy struggles to sustain relatively rapid development.

There is wide consensus that China's university education has evolved from the elite education of the past into mass education after a decade of the ambitious enrollment enlargement program adopted by domestic institutions of higher learning.

The big increase in the number of better-educated people has not only boosted the general quality of this populous nation, it has also played a positive role in driving its economic and social development.