China's primary and secondary education sectors posted the highest increase in jobs created across the country in 2015.

This was among the major findings of a report on the employment status of Chinese college graduates released by the education consulting firm MyCOS, China Daily reported.

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The report's results are based on MyCOS' tracking assessment of 2015graduates for six months since their graduation, covering 123,000 undergraduates and 127,000 higher vocational college graduates.

According to the report, the nation's primary and secondary education sectors were responsible for providing 8.7 percent of the total work opportunities for graduates in 2015, which is an increase of 2.2 percent over the previous year.

Unfortunately, the average salary of fresh graduates who joined China's primary and secondary education sectors was the lowest at around 3,500 yuan ($533).

Among the other sectors in the country which recorded the biggest job increases included internet development and application, finance, medical care or first aid service, and media and publishing.

The report likewise disclosed that those who entered the internet development and application industries were among the best paid, with an average monthly salary of 5,017 yuan, which they received only six months after graduating.

On the other hand, the five occupations which had the sharpest fall in work opportunities in 2015 were architectural engineering; machinery or instrument; marketing; electrical or electronics (with computer science excluded); and automobile engineering.

In particular, architectural engineering posted the biggest drop in jobs generated, decreasing 1.6 percent from the previous year, though it still managed to provide six percent of total job opportunities.

This came as a surprise to many, as architectural engineering was among the employment clusters that witnessed an increase in jobs from 2011 to 201.

In contrast to the growth in China's primary and secondary education sectors, MyCOS noted that the architectural engineering sector's decline in the number of jobs created last year may be a result of the Central government's tightened national policy on property.  

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