Welcome to the permanent underclass， graduates.

joke aside： China is rapidly restructuring higher education for the AI era： from 2021 to 2025， universities cut or suspended 12，200 "obsolete" undergraduate programs and launched 10，200 new ones， reshaping over 30% of all degree programs.

The goal is to shift away from less job-aligned fields like arts and languages toward tech-focused disciplines tied to China's industrial strategy， future industries， and worsening graduate unemployment crisis.

China is going all-in on AI， including in science. A significant proportion of scientists already come from China today.

By the way， it will be interesting to see how the situation regarding access for Chinese researchers and Fable 5 plays out in the future.