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Half a million Chinese compete to become civil servants

2006-11-20 10:56:38 Xinhua English

BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Nearly half a million Chinese people will sit for a national civil servant recruitment examination on Saturday, with 42 people competing for one job on average.

The Ministry of Personnel, organizer of the annual examination, announced Tuesday that 535,574 people will compete for 12,724 job openings in 89 government departments and regional units.

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