The popularity of blue-collar jobs has surged among China’s young adults as demand has grown and wages risen compared with pre-pandemic levels, a report by a leading online hiring platform showed.
In the first quarter, the number of people under the age of 25 who applied for blue-collar jobs rose 165% compared with the same period in 2019, far outpacing the 62.4% growth in the number of job applicants of the same age group, according to a report published by online recruitment platform Zhaopin Ltd. on Thursday.