Chinese College Students at Risk for Suicide

Chinese students are facing mounting pressure when they graduate from China's thousands of Ivory Towers due to an influx of students who also expect to join the work force.

The number of university students has increased by 750,000, rising to 4.13 million. A total of 1.24 million will fail to find a job in 2006, state media reported.

Wang Gang, deputy director of the depression treatment center at the Capital University of Medical Sciences affiliated Beijing Anding Hospital, says his center has seen an increasing number of university students turning to doctors for help.

"At least half of these students are in danger of committing suicide. Some have attempted but failed," says Wang.

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