A new survey shows the employment rate for Chinese college graduates remains stable, with more graduates being employed by private enterprises.

It shows the employment rate of college graduates in 2015 was 91.7 percent, compared with 92.1 percent in 2014.

The survey interviewed some 250,000 college graduates in 30 provincial-level regions on the mainland six months after they graduated last year.

Of that number, 59 percent were employed by private firms, up 5 percentage points on two years before.

More graduates are starting their own businesses, with 3 percent registering as self-employed in 2015. Most graduates secured start-up funding from their parents, relatives, friends or personal savings.

Industries including education, medicare, media, information and communications hired more graduates while construction and hardware manufacturing sectors employed less.