Topic: news 5 Tips for Succeeding in China’s Changing Job Market

Obviously he did not...

But what must be stressed a about looking for a job in the 2nd or even 3rd tier cities is that speaking Chinese is a sine qua non!

The reason being that even with foreign companies almost all of the staff are Chinese now. Naturally the work language is Chinese. So there's simply nothing meaningful that you can do without speaking the language.

My mandarin is still not sufficient to really engage in a working environment and this is exactly what I've discovered while looking for an internship in Jinan.

If you are not fluent in Chinese I think that your only chance will lie in the 1st tier cities, because the senior positions (where most of the foreign staff still can't speak Chinese) is there. So the working language there is still English. I wonder what will happen if the CEOs have also become Chinese..