“Sixty per cent of new hires by the central government offices come from rural or ordinary urban families,” said Yin Weimin. “They have no background [connections].”
Yin said exams were required for all applicants. This showed that the system was fair and equal, he added.
But Yin’s comments failed to convince netizens. They responded by criticising the civil service’s hiring practices on Weibo, China’s twitter-like service.
“[Yin’s comments] show that the other 40 per cent of civil service jobs are snatched by the children of China’s 0.5 per cent,” a Weibo post by Wu Bihu, a professor at Peking University, said.
China has 6.89 million civil servants, which is about 0.5 per cent of its total population.
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