Author: Fuzi Zhang | Public Account: Fuzi Zhang
This is very magical, but also very realistic.
It’s strange, everyone always swarms to buy houses, take civil service exams, take exams for government jobs, grab medicine, and grab salt, just afraid of being half a beat late.
As a worker from a province with a large number of civil service exams, Fuzi’s decision not to take the civil service exam at the beginning made the neighbors shake their heads, and everyone said that this child was finished.
In their eyes, as long as there is no establishment, as long as they can’t eat “yellow millet”, Fuzi’s miserable life is a complete failure.
The outside world simply cannot imagine how crazy our Dashandong is in taking exams for government jobs and government positions.
Data shows that in 2025, more than 60% of Shandong’s college graduates intend to participate in civil service exams and government job exams. In the 2025 national exam, Jinan has 1 tax position, and 649 people compete.
In the past three years, the number of applicants for civil service exams in Shandong has also increased year by year.
In the 2026 national exam, 182,751 people in Shandong passed the review, with an average competition ratio of 83.4:1 in the province, and the maximum competition ratio for positions is 2963:1.
Many people have no concept of this maximum competition ratio.
2963:1 is equivalent to being within the top 230 in the province, with a college entrance examination admission rate of about 0.034%. The admission rate of Tsinghua University and Peking University in Shandong is only 0.05%, which means that you only need to rank around the top 340 in the province.
Even in Shandong, this is far beyond the difficulty of 985 and 211 universities, and it is also more difficult than taking Tsinghua University and Peking University.
The college entrance examination is that everyone has a chance to go to school, and the civil service examination is “one radish and one pit”, everyone competes for the only seat, which is even more cruel.
It’s also very exciting to think about it. In 2026, the number of civil service exam takers reached 3.72 million, surpassing the 3.43 million people taking the postgraduate entrance examination.
The friends Fuzi knows, who desperately took the 985 and 211 exams, are now desperately taking the civil service exams and government job exams to go home.
Jinan has a famous civil service exam street, and the advertising slogan of the tutoring people is “achieve success in one fell swoop”. To be honest, it’s really a delusion.
Fuzi doesn’t understand, but he is indeed greatly shocked.
In the past, there was also such a period of free and easy time. After the economic bubble burst, civil servants were called the profession of God in Japan.
In the 1990s, 65w+ Japanese young people broke their heads to get a stable job.
In 2023, the number of applicants for local civil servants in Japan was only 47,000, and the application ratio was less than 1:3. Young people were afraid to avoid it.
Many people say, hey, how can Little Japan compare with us? Everyone said the same thing when they desperately bought houses and leveraged.
Now, whether they are graduates or graduates from previous years, they are paying sky-high tuition fees on the civil service exam street, simulating and training crazily every day, and their goal is to get ashore.
Next year’s graduates will be close to 13 million. At this rate, the number of civil service exam takers should not be far from exceeding the number of graduates.
As soon as the national exam is over, the provincial exams will follow, but the timelines of Sichuan, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shandong, Tianjin, Jiangsu, and Beijing basically overlap.
The following is just an estimate, and the specific details depend on the official notices of each province and city.
Now many college students start preparing in their sophomore and junior years in order to take the civil service exam.
However, many parents have understood this matter. Since the purpose of going to college cannot escape the civil service exam and government job exam, they will start planning from the first year.
The civil service exam is no longer a “retreat”, and now it has become the best exit for workers in all walks of life.
However, these young people who enjoy various educational resources aim to take the civil service exam and government job exam to get ashore. It’s absurd to think about it.
Everyone is struggling in the sea of employment, and they all want to desperately get ashore, because they feel that getting ashore is a safe haven.
However, under the tide of the times, there are the fate projections of everyone. The more turbulent the waves, the more everyone wants to climb on the reef of the establishment. When the reef is crowded with silent watchers, the future era will define this collective landing and the voyage of this generation.
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