Qianjiang Evening News
At around nine o'clock in the evening, several students were reviewing and preparing for exams in the public self-study area of the Juren Study Room
This may be the last place to turn off the lights near Qufu Road in Wuxing District, Huzhou City.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the lights had just been turned off in the lakeside study room. Lin Zifang, who was born in 2000, put knowledge point notes on the thick material book, then checked the daily schedule on the desktop one by one, and then checked the red and blue marks He took out the vocabulary book from under the pen and put it in his bag. After walking back to the small round-corner apartment about 100 meters away from the study room, he had to recite the vocabulary before going to bed.
There are many students, like Lin Zifang, who have chosen Huzhou as their destination for the past six months. Huzhou, which is close to Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai, is also looking forward to these young people injecting new vitality into the city.
This is the first "Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City" in China and one of the new measures to recruit talents in Wuxing District, Huzhou City. So far, nearly a hundred students have come here to prepare for the postgraduate examination.
builds a postgraduate entrance examination industry chain? Who would specifically choose to come here to take the postgraduate entrance examination? Since its official operation in early May this year, there have been various voices surrounding this new thing. A reporter from Qianjiang Evening News and Hourly News rushed to Huzhou to visit.
At around nine o'clock in the evening, several students were reviewing and preparing for the exam in the public self-study area of the Juren Study Room.
Huzhou students
graduated from independent colleges and returned to their hometown to prepare for the "World War II"
Postgraduate Entrance Examination The new city project consists of the Cultural and Sports Center Base, Balidian Base and Wanma Base. Among them, the gathering study room on the first floor of Wuxing Cultural and Sports Center is the center of the "Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City", where candidates from all over the country gather to prepare for the final sprint in half a year.
’s approximately 3,000-square-meter flat floor is divided into an immersive self-study room, a large classroom, three small classrooms, an open self-study area, a reading area and a bar area, which can provide approximately 500 self-study spaces. Sitting on the study seat at the bar facing south, as far as the eye can see is the clear lake.
The immersive study room is the most popular, where the only sound is the sound of the air-conditioning fan rotating. In the classroom with more than 40 seats, there are only a few empty seats. Under bright lights, in compartments separated by curved wooden boards, there are draft books, tablets, sticky notes, highlighters, sets of "Xiao Xiurong's real test questions", and wind oil. Essence, thermos cups and headphones have become standard equipment for students.
22-year-old Lin Zifang posted three notes on the wall: daily tasks, June goals and the four characters "Stay Optimistic". His eyes were constantly switching between the online class interface and his notebook, and a thermos cup was filled with red bean and barley tea to remove moisture.
At the end of May, Lin Zifang graduated from an independent college in Tianjin and returned to his hometown of Huzhou. Now, he cuts his days down to the minute.
Lin Zifang took the postgraduate entrance examination for the first time, and was more than ten points away from his ideal school Nanjing University of Finance and Economics . Analyzing the reason for the failure, he felt that it was because the offline classes for the postgraduate entrance examination he applied for were too slow and he followed the course progress without properly arranging review time.
He once signed up for a boarding-style postgraduate entrance examination training camp under XX Education. The fee for four subjects was 18,000 yuan, but the students were mixed and the learning atmosphere was not strong. "The postgraduate entrance exams have been so popular in recent years, and there are all kinds of institutions on the market. It's quite chaotic." Lin Zifang said.
Faced with the situation of more than 10 million graduates and the growing number of postgraduate entrance examinations in the past five years, Lin Zifang adjusted his first choice to category B Yunnan University of Finance and Economics .
After reviewing for a long time, and feeling out of breath in the study room, Lin Zifang would go for a walk on the nearby quiet lakeside trail.
"It used to be said that the 'First World War' laid the foundation, the 'World War II' 985, and the 'Third War' proposition group. Now that the competition is so fierce, I just want to be conservative and have books to read." Lin Zifang told Qianjiang Evening News · For hourly news reporters, looking for a job based on an independent school degree is like looking for a needle in a haystack. "World War II" was a necessity for them.
Lin Zifang is in the corner of the desk in the immersive study room. There are learning goals and encouraging notes on the wall.
Those who are taking postgraduate entrance examinations from other places.
The accommodation environment is comfortable and the monthly subsidy is 500 yuan.
Not all students are like Lin Zifang. Share your postgraduate entrance examination experience. Because "World War II" to them is like a brand that is not understood by their parents and does not want to be known by their friends.
Jiang Minmin, from Henan, graduated from a university in Hangzhou majoring in medicine. This year, 80% of her classmates chose to take the postgraduate entrance examination. "For medical students, a bachelor's degree is definitely not enough. Although there are many pharmaceutical companies in Hangzhou, the competition for jobs is fierce." Her regrets were obvious when she mentioned that she did not memorize the content of professional courses well during the competition during her junior year.
gathered in the study room, it is the wish of every student here to be able to enter the postgraduate entrance examination in 2023.
Jiang Minmin saw the introduction of the Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City on the push of a certain platform, "There is a monthly subsidy of 500 yuan, and it is a new city, so come and have a look." What Jiang Minmin likes most is the accommodation environment here, which is a few minutes' walk from Xiaoyuanjiao Apartment. Go to the study room. The monthly rent for a four-person room is 500 yuan. "It's quite spacious. It's important to live comfortably."
Today was the first day Jiang Minmin moved into the postgraduate new city with a box full of labeled books. She asked Qianjiang Evening News·Hour News reporters if they could code the titles of her professional books when filming, "I have classmates studying in Hangzhou, and I don't want them to know."
Before coming to Huzhou, 25-year-old Zhoushan Yu Pengcheng from has been working in Hangzhou for two years. He is engaged in water treatment engineering. "I want to major in computer science. It will be too late if I don't study." Faced with the increasingly severe employment situation, he realized the urgency of investing in himself, but his parents who wanted stability did not support his idea. After experiencing After numerous arguments, he decided to resign and take the postgraduate entrance examination.
In the view of Wu Yuhang, a Shandong native, the postgraduate entrance examination is not the only option. After resigning from a state-owned enterprise and coming to Huzhou, he visited Freeport , the headquarters of Huzhou Eastern New Town. "There are quite a lot of positions. If there is a suitable one, I will consider employment."
Head of the study room
Since the beginning of June, there have been Nearly a hundred people have stayed at
Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City. According to the check-in guide, the fee for the Juren Study Room is 389 yuan for a monthly pass, 899 yuan for a summer pass, 1,899 yuan for a half-year pass, and 2,999 yuan for an annual pass. It covers public classes, Q&A and other comprehensive services for the postgraduate entrance examination. Liu Guowei, the person in charge of the
Juren Study Room, found that students who come here to prepare for the exam basically have to prepare their own materials and take online courses. "Teaching public courses in a unified way may be a waste of time. We plan to collect students' questions in July and open a professional Q&A class." "
Liu Guowei told Qianjiang Evening News·Hour News reporter that from the beginning of June to now, nearly a hundred students have applied for self-study check-in, and the most expensive ones are summer cards and half-year cards.
Although the Postgraduate Entrance Examination City recruits students all over the country, especially in the central and western regions, from the actual situation, the students are still mainly graduates of double non-universities and independent colleges in the Yangtze River Delta region, and their ages are concentrated between 20 and 24 years old. . "Basically, they are graduates who are preparing for World War II, and there are also those who quit their jobs and prepare for the exam." Liu Guowei said.
observed that the reasons why these candidates chose New City for the postgraduate entrance examination are nothing more than the following: a better atmosphere for the postgraduate entrance examination; a more comfortable accommodation environment; affordable prices; and the reliability of government endorsement.
As for whether they will choose to stay, their general opinion is, "It depends on whether they can find a suitable job here? Is there an income that meets expectations? Are the city's public service facilities complete..." they said. (The names of the candidates in this article are all pseudonyms)
The small round corner apartment with accommodation facilities provided by "Postgraduate Entrance Examination City" will be opened in early June, about a five-minute walk from the Juren Study Room.
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Huzhou builds a postgraduate entrance examination industry chain with the purpose of attracting talents
Starting around 2020, more and more college graduates no longer regard employment as their first choice, but give priority to postgraduate entrance examinations and editing examinations. In early May this year, Huzhou’s “Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City” was officially put into operation, and various voices surrounding this new thing continued.
Why does Huzhou want to build a postgraduate entrance examination industry chain? How do you get a college student to stay after he takes the postgraduate entrance examination in Huzhou? Huzhou was thinking about these issues the moment the idea of "postgraduate entrance examination new city" emerged. Qianjiang Evening News·Hourly News reporter interviewed the initiator of the "Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City" project and the government department of Wuxing District, Huzhou.
At around 12 noon, half of the students had already gone out to eat. They placed postgraduate entrance examination materials on the table to occupy their seats.
Project operator
explores new models to build a one-stop base
"Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City" project initiator and operator Zhimao Talent Manager Jiang Peng said that he first noticed Huzhou at the end of 2017. At that time, he was engaged in starting a business in Shanghai to pay for knowledge education for college students, connecting the resources of major universities and education and training institutions. At a talent promotion meeting in Huzhou, Jiang Peng discovered that the local government provided high housing subsidies for doctoral talents. "It is very close to Shanghai, and I happen to have a Ph.D., so I thought I might as well go there and have a look." Before starting his own business, Jiang Peng had Working at the grassroots level within the system in the central and western regions, he has his own understanding of the launch of the "Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City". “On the one hand, there are a huge number of graduates from double-Africa colleges in the central and western regions, but their employment issues receive little attention; on the other hand, there are cities that are hungry for talents due to the siphon effect from surrounding first-tier cities, such as Huzhou. "
The idea of building a talent complex with the theme of postgraduate entrance examination has been supported by the relevant government departments of Wuxing District. In early May of this year, the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Wuxing District, Huzhou sent a "Letter About Inviting Outstanding Students from Your School to Wu for Postgraduate Studies" to many domestic universities, mostly targeting students from the central and western regions.
"Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City" will strictly review the educational and training institutions that are admitted. "At the same time, these teams must provide the best prices while enjoying the government's free rent subsidy." Jiang Peng said.
"In Shanghai, full-time teachers teach a two-hour postgraduate entrance examination course, and the tuition is around 1,000 yuan. Now students with a monthly card can directly attend." The model of "Gathering Study Room" in Shanghai is a boarding-style self-study room , the operating cost is very high, and the half-year tuition fee for students is more than 10,000 yuan. Due to the epidemic and other reasons, the number of students in Shanghai dropped sharply by 40% this year. They hope to explore a new model in Huzhou.
Jiang Peng also plans to introduce various institutions such as study abroad, volunteer application, certification services, and employment analysis. "With the postgraduate entrance examination rate of only 20%, will the remaining children want to study in a skills training institution, or take a certificate to enrich themselves?" He hopes that Wuxing District can become a stop for skills training for young people. style base.
In the "Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City", in addition to the "Juren Study Room", education and training institutions such as "Neusoft Education" and "Zheli Postgraduate Entrance Examination" are also moving in.
The one that moved in earlier than the "Juren Study Room" was "Neusoft Education". Different from the "Gathering Study Room", "Neusoft Education" has a clear employment orientation, and the training time is three to four months.
Wanma Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park is also home to large and small factories and accommodation areas. Most students from other places undergo internship and trial training in Huzhou paired enterprises. The government also conducts inspections on Neusoft Education's "retention rate".
There are four classrooms in the Juren Study Room, which will be put into use for Q&A classes in July.
Government departments
Build a new youth city and attract talents with services
In recent years, Huzhou has successively introduced a number of talent policies such as "Lake Eight", "Hu Nine" and "Hu Ten". The emergence of the "Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City" is also a change in Huzhou's thinking on recruiting college students.
Under the siphon effect of surrounding cities such as Shanghai, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, Huzhou began to think about how to shift from attracting talents through enterprises to providing various high-quality and low-cost services that meet the needs of young people. Let them flow to Huzhou first, and then think about how to stay in Huzhou. Huzhou.
At the recently held "Wushang Leju" new youth city project centralized cloud signing event, Wuxing District, Huzhou City signed urban functional projects with a total investment of 19 billion yuan with a number of cooperative units, and also issued the "Youth Talent New City Skills" Measures for improving base talent introduction subsidy.”
Li Lan, head of the Talent Section of the Wuxing District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, said that compared with surrounding cities, Huzhou has lower price levels and housing prices, and a better ecological and cultural environment. He hopes to attract young talents through good services.
"Actually, the postgraduate entrance examination is only part of it. We hope to build a 'New Youth City' to provide various services for college students to improve their skills and train." Li Lan told Qianjiang Evening News·Hourly News reporter that the government has provided financial support to the educational institutions currently occupied. Subsidies for exempting venue fees and decoration fees.
Huzhou has always faced the pain point of industrial concentration in traditional manufacturing and a lack of high-tech enterprises. One of the main reasons behind this pain point is the lack of talent.
Lu Peihong, deputy director of the Wuxing District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, told the Qianjiang Evening News·Hourly News reporter that in addition to the eastern new city, Huzhou has introduced intelligent logistics equipment industry in the high-tech zone in recent years, and developed eco-tourism and beauty industries in the southwest sector. "Industrial development and the inflow of talents should complement each other." Lu Peihong said that companies often report that they cannot recruit talents in electrical appliances, automation, machinery and other majors.
The "World War II students" who come here to prepare for the exam have their own review materials and online courses. Students focus on independent learning
Expert interpretation
Third and fourth-tier cities attract talents, and it is more important to practice internal skills
Zhejiang University School of Architectural Engineering Regional and Ding Xu, associate professor of the Department of Urban Planning, has also paid attention to the new trends in population migration in recent years. "Population issues are related to urban competitiveness, which is particularly critical for Huzhou."
In this regard, associate researcher at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Deng Zhongliang said that local exploration and promotion of "youth development-oriented city construction pilot" is a useful measure to promote urban economic development and stabilize employment.
Deng Zhongliang said that Huzhou’s introduction of skills training industry for college students is a concrete practice of actively exploring youth development cities and deserves encouragement. While Huzhou itself does not have the advantage of university resources, it needs to borrow high-quality external platforms to achieve the rapid development of Huzhou-related industries; secondly, it should also be a highland for education and training consumption, and create employment skills-based training.
Deng Zhongliang also reminded that it is a common practice to attract the population through the construction of functional new cities, but the objective laws of population flow need to be considered. Employment and work are important factors in achieving stable residence, and postgraduate entrance examinations or skills training are an important part of students' education path, not the end.
Huzhou’s worries in the talent war are also the pain points of most third-tier cities in China. Deng Zhongliang said that the migration of young people is mainly to better achieve full employment. The most important thing is whether there are opportunities and conditions to achieve full employment, jobs and income that satisfy self-worth, as well as education and medical care in the destination city. and other city public services. "For third- and fourth-tier cities, it is more important to develop their internal capabilities in developing industrial resources and building infrastructure." Deng Zhongliang said.
(Original title "Wuxing District, Huzhou City launches China's first "Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City". From the beginning of June to now, nearly a hundred students from all over the country have moved into the "Postgraduate Entrance Examination New City" to prepare for the exam. What do they want?")
