China reported a record number of graduates entering its job market in 2020, with 8.74 million grad-uates searching for jobs amid a global pandemic and a Chinese economy that is recovering from the effects of COVID-19. Unem-ployment is one of the met-rics being watched to gauge the recovery of China post outbreak, with offcial urban unemploy-ment at 5.9 percent as of March 2020.