Why is it so difficult for a college student to find a part-time job in China ?

I just watched on tv our prime news about graduates is China hunting for good jobs. They interviewed the graduates and they said too few good jobs and too many graduates. Very competitive. From what you mentioned, even part time jobs is hard to come by. I hope the economy will improve. All the best to you!

In my country it is not easy to find part-time jobs either, unless they are low paid and at odd hours. Restaurants take often students as waitresses, but they pay them little and tips make the bulk of their salary. Late hours are not good for a student and in my country we go for a diner out at 9 PM at the earliest.

Can you cook some delicious food like snacks? If you can, then it would be better if you preparing some, packaging them with an attractive package, and sell. Or, you can try either selling opportunity where you can earn a profit from. The earnings potential is a bit better than working a job, and if you can't really find a job, then I think that would be enough for you to make money from.

I think finding job nowadays is pretty hard even with a college degree. But you can resolve to other methods other than employment. Maybe you might engage yourself in online freelancing activities or GPT sites.

Online jobs are a good alternative to part time job. So you can try being active online for 2 or 3 hours and earn some pocket money.

You can always try Freelancing online though if you got good based in IT because I do have seen many Chinese developer hanging around with top earned money in freelancing sites. By doing that you could at least support your fee and get extra pocket money. I my self pay my tuition money using that until I graduate.