Friday Photo: Chinese job fair gets out of control

Photo by China Photos/Getty Images A tide of more than 30,000 students with polished résumés and high hopes surged into a job fair here so eager to meet with employers that they shattered four glass doors and splayed the side walls of an escalator in what became a near riot.

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NANJING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 20: (CHINA OUT) Job hunters flock to an employment fair on November 20, 2006 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. According to state media, young Chinese are facing difficulities as a result of an increasingly competitive labor market, with nearly 4.13 million graduates entering the workforce in 2006, 750,000 more than the previous year. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

Photo by China Photos/Getty Images



Photo by China Photos/Getty Images


A tide of more than 30,000 students with polished résumés and high hopes surged into a job fair here so eager to meet with employers that they shattered four glass doors and splayed the side walls of an escalator in what became a near riot.

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