Chinese universities are not equipping their graduates with the skills they need to secure a job amid soaring rates of youth unemployment, researchers say. Even as China's overall employment prospects have improved somewhat , the country's young people continue to face record-high joblessness rates, with nearly 20 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds not working, according to  government figures published in March. In a recent editorial for the China-focused publication Sixth Tone , Li Xiaoguang, an assistant professor of sociology at Xi'an Jiaotong University and author of a forthcoming study on youth unemployment, suggested that universities might be to blame.

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