FOR UNIVERSITY CAREERS TEAMS
Chinese Returnee Employment Network
CREN is a free network for university careers teams who work with Chinese students planning to return to China. Members receive a monthly newsletter on the graduate job market there: the trends, policies and recruitment activity their students will meet when they go home.
COVERS
Graduate jobs, policy and recruitment in China
FREQUENCY
Monthly
COST
Free
LANGUAGE
English
WHAT THE NETWORK RUNS
Network activities
Monthly newsletter
RUNNING
Issued monthly by email since October 2026.
Webinars and events
IN PLANNING
Members will hear about these first, by email.
The newsletter
Each issue takes the month's graduate employment stories and policy news from China and explains what they mean for the students you advise.
IN EACH ISSUE
Stories
Graduate job-hunting stories circulating on Chinese social media, with a selection of what readers are saying in the comments.
Policies
New government documents and Ministry of Education announcements that bear on graduate employment.
EACH ONE FOLLOWED BY
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Why This Matters For Overseas Universities
A short note after each story on what it means for the students you advise.
LATEST ISSUE
October 2026 · Issue 1
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ALSO IN THE ISSUE
Monthly snapshot
The past month's graduate recruitment campaigns and returnee job fairs, with their scale and any arrangements for overseas applicants.
Glossary
The China-specific terms used in the issue.
WHERE RELEVANT
All issues
MEMBERSHIP IS FREE
Join the network
Members receive each issue of the newsletter by email, and are the first to hear about CREN webinars and events.
We use your details only to send you CREN emails. Every email includes a link to unsubscribe.
CREN is run by Venture Education.