About 60 percent of Taiwanese university students said they worried Chinese students with Taiwanese degrees would compete with them for jobs overseas once Chinese students are allowed to study in Taiwan, according to the results of a survey released on Monday by the 1111 Job Bank.
The results show that 58.84 percent of the 707 students polled expressed concern about competition from Chinese students, while 35.6 percent said they were confident and had no worries about competition from Chinese students with Taiwanese degrees.
Meanwhile, 62.94 percent of respondents said they supported allowing Chinese students to study in Taiwan, while 37.06 percent expressed opposition.
In terms of restrictions on Chinese students in Taiwan, 45.54 of the respondents said there was no need for restrictions.
The top three restrictions on Chinese students that should be relaxed cited by the respondents were: Chinese students should be allowed to work while studying in Taiwan (28.15 percent), seek jobs after graduation (20.79 percent) and receive scholarships (20.23 percent).
In terms of restrictions that should be imposed on Chinese students, the top three were: an upper limit of 2,000 Chinese students per year allowed to study in Taiwan (30.72 percent), the refusal to recognize diplomas issued by 41 Chinese universities (24.75 percent) and a ban on Chinese students enrolling in departments closely related to Taiwanese national security (23.76 percent).
Meanwhile, a different poll conducted by the job bank shows that 52.94 percent of 490 China-based Taiwanese businesses reported that they would not have a preference for Chinese job-seekers with Taiwanese degrees when recruiting, while 21.32 percent said they would prefer job-seekers with this background and 25.74 indicated that even though they would prefer to recruit Chinese people, they would base their hiring decisions on the actual qualifications of the applicants.
The polls were conducted between Sept. 9 and Sept. 23, after the Legislative Yuan passed legal amendments last month that will allow Chinese students to enroll in Taiwanese universities, beginning next year at the earliest.
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