China civil servant application website jammed for overload

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-10-16 22:22

BEIJING - A website designed for the public to apply for China's annual civil servant's examination was overloaded on its first day of operation.

After 8 a.m. on Wednesday, the website, www.mohrss.gov.cn/mohrss/gwy2009, was visited by increasing applicants which crashed the site in the morning.

"Although it resumed to normal, the browsing speed is very slow," an Internet engineer for the website said on Thursday. "Our server was okay, the problem was the visitors were too many for it to deal with."

The Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security(MOHRSS) announced the application for the annual exam would be open from October 15 to October 24. The exam will be held on November 30.

The central government is offering about 13,500 jobs in its various departments and branches through the country starting in 2009, about equal to what was offered this year.

According to the ministry, so far a position offered by the Public Security Ministry has become the most wanted with 15 qualified applicants.

As of Wednesday, there had been no qualified applicants for the Ministries of Education, Health and Culture. Last year, a position offered by the Agriculture Ministry attracted 3,592 applicants.

Civil servants positions have become one of the most desired in the country for their stability, sufficient welfare and considerably high social class, making its examination a heated competition for job seekers, including millions of fresh university grads each year.

More than 800,000 applicants are estimated to be sitting for the examination. However, the central government has decided to hire more people who have grassroots working experience through this year's exam.

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