Only one in a 1,000 children in China's financial hub want to grow up to be a common worker, once hailed as the vanguard of class struggle.
Newly rich Chinese are expected to spend the holiday, a time to celebrate the international labor movement, opening their wallets in far-flung destinations, reaping the rewards of higher paying jobs in the professions and financial sector.
Most technical vocational schools in Shanghai, where the Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1921, had closed or suspended classes due to lack of demand, the news agency said.
"Workers' contributions and their rewards do not match, and that is why people do not want the jobs," it quoted a researcher with a government think-tank as saying.
China loosened the reins on the state-controlled economy in the late 1970s and then sought to make good on the words of late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, who encouraged the masses to get rich.
China's leaders are charting a course that will make China Communist almost only in name, protecting private property and letting capitalists join the party. - DDNews India
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