Chinese graduates gather for a convocation ceremony at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei in east China’s Anhui province yesterday. A record 6.8 million Chinese students, most of them born in 1990, are graduating from Chinese colleges this summer, as increasing number of graduates find it tough to get the right job because there are not enough openings for graduates in the major cities.

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