More from the Govt. website..From August of 2006 article..
"There are 330,000 job vacancies for skilled workers, such as millers and welders, each year in Beijing, but there is a dearth of qualified people. The situation is the same all over the country.
While university graduates have been scrambling for jobs in recent years, the employment rate of secondary vocational school graduates remains at a high level.
From 2001 to 2005, the employment rate has stayed at 95 percent on average, and the average salary of graduates of secondary vocational schools is higher than college graduates this year in the cities of Harbin, Hangzhou and Chengdu.
The central government will invest 10 billion yuan in the infrastructure of vocational education over the next five years and local governments will also spend more than 20 billion yuan in the initiative, according to Wu."