Test-takers in Nanjing Wholesale Ravens Hats , capital of East China's Jiangsu Province seize their last chance to study before sitting exams for the 2015 round of civil service recruitment. Photo: IC
Xiao Jiang (pseudonym), a second year graduate student at Beijing International Studies University, starts her studies in the library every day at 8 am, and usually finishes at 10 pm.


Jiang is one of the 3,620 candidates who have applied for a position offered to students by China's Foreign Ministry in the 2017 round of civil service recruitment.


In the spring of 2017, 44 applicants will be offered this position after several rounds of written exams Wholesale Ravens Hoodies , oral exams and interviews.


"I am currently doing exercises for the recruitment like crazy," Jiang told the Global Times on Wednesday. "I don't think much about how many people have applied for this position. I just want to make an effort for it."


The registration process for the 2017 round of civil servant recruitment finished on Monday, with 2.1 million people applying for more than 27,000 vacancies in about 120 central departments and agencies, with around 1.48 million then judged to be qualified to take the first round of exams on November 27, according to Li Zhong Wholesale Ravens Shirts , a spokesman from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, news portal chinanews reported on Thursday.


The 2017 round has the same number of job vacancies as in 2016. The numbers of newly recruited government workers rose from more than 16,000 in 2011 to 22,000 in 2015, said the Xinhua News Agency.


"Most Chinese people like stable and long-term work," an employee from the Foreign Ministry who got his job this year Wholesale Ravens Jerseys , told the Global Times on Wednesday on condition of anonymity, adding that she uses the foreign language she learned in college in her job.


"I feel very lucky to be enrolled through the civil servant recruitment," a man surnamed Ye who entered a government department in Beijing on his sixth attempt, told the Global Times on Wednesday.


According to Ye, he hoped to realize his own value by working for the government, and more importantly Cheap Ravens Hats , he expected the position would provide him with a house in Beijing as some government bodies still own significant property portfolios in the capital which they can distribute to their employees.


"Even though I earn a little bit less than before," Ye said.


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Among the 27,000 vacancies, the position of a receptionist for the central committee of the China Democratic League (CDL), a non-Communist political party with around 230,000 members Cheap Ravens Hoodies , is the most competitive, with 9,837 applicants for one job.


The receptionist position, which will provide services to the daily affairs, conferences and activities of the CDL, has been listed in the recruitment for the first time in several years.


The CDL position only requires applicants to have a bachelor degree and two years of grassroots work experience Cheap Ravens Shirts , while many other vacancies ask candidates to either be a Communist Party of China member, a college-graduate village official or have at least five years of grassroots work experience.


"The most popular position changes every year, but in general they are the vacancies provided by the central government with relatively fewer limitations on the candidates' academic background and work experience," Xiong Bingqi, deputy director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, told the Global Times on Wednesday.