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The Economist
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Nearly 12 million students will graduate from Chinese universities in June. Where they go after that is increasingly difficult to predict.
For decades, graduates were drawn to the same four cities: Beijing, the capital; Shanghai, a financial hub; Shenzhen, a tech centre; and Guangzhou, an export powerhouse.
