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The appetite for further studies in China has grown as youth unemployment rises. The number of students taking postgraduate courses has doubled from about 611,380 in 2013 to 1.3 million in 2023.
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Undergraduate Xiao Lu worries that she will not be able to find work when she graduates from her degree programme in Japanese translation next summer.
“When I chose my major after high school, I could not have known how artificial intelligence would take away jobs for Japanese translators,” Ms Xiao, 21, told The Straits Times, adding that lukewarm ties between China and Japan do not help.
