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"I've had one, two, three, four... five jobs in the last few months," says Joy Zhang, a 23-year-old graduate.

She counts them on her fingers as she walks through a line of stalls at a local food market in Chengdu, a city in south-west China's Sichuan province.

"The fact is there are lots of jobs, the problem is whether you are willing to lower your expectations," she adds, before turning to negotiate a price for snow pea shoots.

Joy's experience is not unusual in today's China, where there are more graduates than employers that need them. Out of her class of 32, only around a third have found full-time jobs since graduating in the summer.

More than one in five people between the ages of 16 and 24 are jobless in China, according to official data from August 2022. The government has not released youth unemployment figures since then.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lots of premature dooming and the article loosely acknowledges that. At the same time there's plenty the CPC can do to improve the status quo for young people, and all people really. I don't know of they'd have the wisdom to do that.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don’t know of they’d have the wisdom to do that.

Probably not. Any measure for this usually stops at Xi and his usual "it would make people lazy" reply.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is so fucking annoying... and so irresponsible given how many people's futures are at stake, let alone the rest of the world that is affected by it in a number of ways.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That's typical for authoritarian rule. The leader has a fixed idea and makes it happen while nobody dares to say anything. That way they get some things done that are hard in democracies, but they also do some really detrimental things. The longer they are in power, the more of the latter stuff they do.