What Attracts Me to Stay? A Qualitative Study on the Destination City Choice of the College Graduates

DOI

10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.135How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Destination city, Climatic amenities, Social amenities, College graduates, Qualitative study, Quanzhou city.

Abstract

Retaining university students after their graduation is one of the goals pursued by many cities. Understanding the college graduates’ willing to stay is of great benefit to the task improvement. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 9 college graduates who stayed in Quanzhou city where their universities is located, this paper considers the choice of stay or not is the result of the comprehensive effect of multiple driving forces. It inclueds right position, climatic amenities, social amenities, and pace of life. Most choose to stay, while a small number are looking for a chance to leave. Based on the empirical results of this paper, some policy recommendations are suggested, such as internship opportunities offering, entrepreneurs funds supporting, and good social security services providing.

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenshi Li
AU  - Yan Xiang
AU  - Jinjin Chen
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - What Attracts Me to Stay? A Qualitative Study on the Destination City Choice of the College Graduates
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 698
EP  - 701
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.135
DO  - 10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.135
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