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Last Sunday, Ningbo glowed with the arrival of a number of pop stars, such as Yuan Quan, Cao Fang, Ding Dang and the Boy& Girl Group. They came here to attend the fifth concert of the Chinese Pop Music Chart.

The first performer was Ding Dang from Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. She was warmly welcomed by the audience. She may be short, but is full of power and passion. The excited audience was quieted down by two of her lyric songs.

Next came a jubilant-rhythmic Olympic song by the Boy& Girl Group, called "the Sky Dream". which stirred the mood of all, while Cao Fang's "Meeting Me" brought the audience back to those campus days.

 Of course, the climax came when Yuan Quan, the ice beauty, appeared. This was not her first trip to Ningbo, as she has fond memories of our delicious Ningbo food Yuan Quan recalled that  all the dishes she ate last year were tasty, especially one called deep fried Tangyuan (rice dumpling), "it was so savory." She said.

The college grads service month has kicked off and seven job fairs targeting graduating students will be given successively. On November23rd the arts and economy fair was held in Zheda Ningbo Engineering Institute. There, we found that booths of downtown-based enterprises were full of job-hunters, while those of companies based in remote counties seemed not popular among the students.

At 8:00 o'clock in the morning, the fair was already filled with graduating students from various colleges and universities of the city. Crowds of students had gathered around the booths of enterprises subordinate to government departments, Bank of Ningbo and the like.

Xiao Chen, a student of NBU: Enterprises like Bank of Ningbo can offer more opportunities and a better welfare and salary. Hopefully, I can get a job that offers a good pay. 

A student by the surname of Gong from Northeast University wanted a job in a foreign trade company. He expected to work in a place not far away from downtown area. 

After interviewing other students we found many of them shared the similar mentality with Gong. They preferred to work in urban areas. That was why the stands of enterprises far from downtown were left out in the cold, with few people coming in.

Just take a look at this garment company. It is located at Fenghua County. This time it came to the fair with more than 10 job openings of management and technology. But in the morning they only received no more than 10 applications. The personnel said it seemed that graduates nowadays have a city complex, more or less.

According to the statistics of Ningbo Human Resource Market, for the first three quarters of this year, the city's demand for talents was 98,000 while there were 320000 applicants available. We know the decline of demand was due to economic downturn.  But for the graduating students,   experts said, no matter what the exterior environment is like, it's inevitable for graduates to have a job; So to have a proper goal and stay confident is of foremost importance for each graduating student.