Civil service jobs in less demand
公务员需求减少

The number of applicants for civil service jobs has dropped in most places so far this year. According to eighteen provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions that released employment information, sixteen of them saw a decrease in applicants year-on-year.

目前，今年大部分地区申请公务员的人数都在下降。据18个省，市，自治区发布的就业信息显示，其中16个区域的申请人数年同比均有所下降。

The number of applicants in Zhejiang province was down 37 percent from 360 thousand last year to 227,000 in 2014. And most other provinces saw a decrease of between ten and thirty percent this year. Only Shanxi province and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region have seen increases in the number of applicants.

其中，浙江省申请人数量下降了37 %，从去年的36万人减少到2014年的22万7千人，而其他大多数的省份，今年分别减少了10%到30%。仅陕西省和内蒙古自治区申请人数增加。

Meanwhile, fifteen provincial-level governments have cut the number of civil service positions available. Zhejiang province for example has about 1,500 less posts than last year.

与此同时，15个省级政府都削减公务员职位。比如浙江省就比去年同期减少了约1,500个职位。