China Trains Online Entrepreneurs

China Entrepreneurship – Jia Shaohua is helping his students set up their own online shops to learn business and management skills

Jia says his e-commerce entrepreneurship classes, in which about a fourth of the college’s students participate, offer real-life skills to students who graduate better equipped to compete against the millions of other university students who enter the job market every year

An educator at a vocational school with about 8,000 students, Jia is at the forefront of efforts to make higher education more relevant to China’s job market at a time when an economic downturn means university graduates face bleak prospects

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