Abstract: Attention to employment quality of university graduates is a necessary commitment of higher education under the background of high-quality development of the whole country. This research, based on an empirical analysis of employment quality of graduates of years 2019-2021 of five of Yunnan’s universities of different levels in different regions, finds that in general employment of Yunnan’s university graduates is fairly stable but highly concentrated in terms of industrial sector and uneven in terms of demand on the labor market. Other issues identified by the research include intense competition for in-system jobs, low percentage in self-employment entrepreneuring, high percentage of entrepreneurs in low-threshold industries, and increasingly higher requirements from employers on university graduates. This paper applies the Triple Helix theory to analyze the reasons underlying these issues, hoping to identify measures for universities, the government and the employers to join hands to tackle existing problems facing employment of university graduates and help them adapt faster to the diversified labor market, so as to eventually enhance employment quality.

Key words: Triple Helix theory, university graduate of Yunnan Province, employment quality, countermeasure