In Depth: Why Foreign Degrees Have Lost Their Luster for Chinese Graduates

In April, Gan Ziping returned to China after earning a degree in business administration from Meiji University in Japan. He told Caixin in October that he had yet to find a job even though he had sent out hundreds of copies of his résumé.

“I don’t even have an interview now,” Gan said in an earlier interview with Caixin. Many of his peers are also unemployed, he said.