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Along with a rapid economic development, the labour market in China is increasingly liquidizing, causing job changes or turnovers to become a normal state. This social phenomenon was triggered partly by the introduction of free labour market of school graduates after the abolition of the job-assignment system for higher education graduates in 1992, which was the last vestige of the socialist system of the Chinese government. The job-assignment system was a labour force management measure, where graduates of secondary education or higher were distributed systematically to production sectors in society based on the forecasts of human resources demand in a planned economy.
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Makino, A. (2012). Liquidation of Labour Markets and Adult Education in China. In: Aspin, D., Chapman, J., Evans, K., Bagnall, R. (eds) Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2360-3_19
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