Let's talk about the latter. Many people will classify financial support personnel as civil servants in a narrow sense. In fact, this includes not only civil servants and public institutions, but also some retirees and those who are temporarily employed according to regulations, as well as those whose wages and benefits are paid by public finance. This range is very wide. In layman's terms, as long as they are financially paid, they are basically financial support personnel. There are not only public officials we understand, but also doctors in public hospitals and teachers in public schools, as well as various public welfare posts scattered in various departments and at all levels.
In recent years, with the reform of organization and establishment, the proportion of financial support personnel has always maintained a state that the total number of financial support personnel has only decreased. In recent years, there are many forms of recruiting financial support personnel, such as national examination, provincial examination, institution examination, talent introduction examination, teacher examination, community worker examination, auxiliary police examination and so on. Finally, they all converge to the sequence of financial support personnel, but some are civil servants, some are career editors, and some are temporary contract financial support personnel. From this perspective, it is true that financial assistants have become a major employment destination.
But this does not mean that civil servants have become the main destination of employment. The destination is that you have been admitted. In 2022, combined with the national and provincial examinations, about 200,000 civil servants were recruited nationwide. When rural areas are not included, the newly-added labor force in cities and towns alone is160,000, including more than 100,000 college graduates10. Do you think this employment trend is the main trend? Even if10,000,000 college graduates take the civil service exam, only 2% will finally land, not to mention the denominator will continue to be diluted.
Therefore, taking the civil service examination will not become the main trend of employment in the future, because there will not be so many civil servants recruited at all.