Früher waren Chinas klügste Studenten auf der Suche nach Jobs in den Bereichen Technik und Finanzen. Jetzt entscheiden sie sich für die Fertigung. – Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-top-graduates-factory-manufacturing-jobs-tsinghua-2026-3
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Means they’re smart!
This feels less like “students suddenly love factories” and more like China’s best grads following where the prestige, money, and momentum have moved — EVs, batteries, semis, energy, not old-school assembly lines.
The bigger story is that tech and finance lost some shine, while advanced manufacturing now looks like the new high-status path for ambitious engineers.
First off business insider is absolute garbage
. I have worked with plenty of manufacturing engineers in China and it’s also competitive but it doesn’t pay as much as the tech engineer roles. And it’s quite saturated itself. But that is a moot point now because manufacturing is where the jobs are left currently.
As someone who works in manufacturing, and specifically works in development, I find it weird to completely differentiate between “tech” and manufacturing. Advanced manufacturing is incredibly tech heavy. They might mean it more as a software/hardware split, but even then advanced manufacturing has become more and more reliant on good software over the years. Automated manufacturing systems wouldn’t be where they are today without the advances in computer vision systems that ML has allowed for over the last two decades.
Be weary of media pushing the idea of white collar people moving to blue collar.
There is a very large push against university degrees and Intellectual growth and more toward trades and blue collar work.
They also went through two years as grads with almost no jobs, might be why