The global financial crisis is having a major impact on the job market. Over six million Chinese students graduated this year, and the Education Ministry has announced measures to create more jobs for them.

Graduates who choose to work in remote and rural areas for a required period will be exempt from paying college tuition fees and the government will pay off their education loans. The government will also recruit over 30,000 college graduates to teach in rural schools in western regions.

Meanwhile, the army will absorb more college students.

Students queue up at the job fair held in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, on Nov. 29, 2008. Around 40,000 graduated students from 28 schools in the three provinces in northeast China and north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region came to the job fair held in Changchun. [Xinhua]