China's K-visa Plans Spark Worries of a Talent Flood (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/01/139248/chinas-k-visa-plans-spark-worries-of-a-talent-flood
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/cnbcs-the-china-connection-newsletter-chinas-k-visa-plans-spark-worries-of-a-talent-flood.html
> Immigration anxieties and a challenging job market have [1]sparked an online backlash over China's latest attempt at attracting global talent -- a new visa program announced in August. The program, which was rolled out on Wednesday with the aim of attracting foreign professionals, will also test how China balances its immigration policy with its pursuit of technological ambitions.
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> Under the new rules, young graduates -- in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics or STEM -- no longer need backing from a local employer and can enjoy more flexibility in terms for entry frequency and duration of stay. The keyword "K-visa" -- as China's new visa category is called -- was among the top searches on social media site Weibo for days, before chatter about National Day traffic jams pushed it off the charts as millions hit the road for a week-long holiday.
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> Chinese social media users argue that the new visa tilts the playing field toward foreign graduates at the expense of those educated in China. Others on Weibo warned that without employer sponsorship, the program could invite fraudulent applications and open the door to a surge in arrivals from developing countries, piling pressure on an already strained labor market.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/cnbcs-the-china-connection-newsletter-chinas-k-visa-plans-spark-worries-of-a-talent-flood.html
Why stop there? (Score:2)
Perhaps China should create an F-Visa for women who want to live in China.
They're not a democracy (Score:2)
So there isn't a hell of a lot anyone can do about it.
Also it is genuinely hilarious to see a "communist" Nation worried about having enough jobs.
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Well, given what happens in the US at this time, Democracy might not be the solution for this problem.
Re: They're not a democracy (Score:2)
I'm told about once a week by right wing posters that the US isn't a democracy.
So they do what the US did (Score:2)
And what worked well, but the US is not doing it anymore.
What the West should fear here (Score:2)
The West is already descending into demographic warfare between retirees and workers, and the former have electoral cohesion and numbers on their side to continue forcing the workers to fund them. China has a good chance of avoiding this because their elderly can't vote themselves a bigger share of the workers' wages.
Like it or not, that's a potentially huge advantage of not being democratic. China can just decide one day say to retirees "you're drunk, go home and stop demanding more of the workers' wages"
we can't find people willing to work 996 for low w (Score:2)
we can't find people willing to work 996 for low wages so we need guest workers!
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I constantly hear reports of massive unemployment of new graduates in China. This seems strange.
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I suspect the reality is that China produces a lot of worthless degrees.
Re: we can't find people willing to work 996 for l (Score:2)
Half of graduates are below average.
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Perhaps you've been lied to about China? A lot?
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I think they have plenty of people willing but human beings can't keep that pace up for very long they burn out.
You need a constant supply of new labor to replace the old ones that you basically destroyed. You see it in Japan where they don't have the same amount of authoritarianism so they can talk about it.ex salary men who are now homeless because after 20 years of working 70 80 hours a week they just hit their limit and had a breakdown and now they are basically unemployable.
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That is just mindless propaganda. Of course you can always negotiate your workload. You just need some really good skills for that. Oh, and look, this is exactly targeted at those people.
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Look at how many people go to Saudi Arabia for work and live like royalty for a few years. Conditions are great, pay is astronomical. The rest of the country is not somewhere you would want to live, of course.
Having actually been to China I can say it's a lot nicer than that. None of these jobs will be 996 either.