“1 in 5 young people in Chinese cities are out of work. Beijing wants them to work in the fields” - This statistic is very surprising given the shrinking young population. The demographic time bomb may be worse than is immediately obvious - "As the jobless rate among China’s youth soars, the country’s richest province has offered a highly controversial solution: Send 300,000 unemployed young people to the countryside for two to three years to find work." - "Guangdong, the manufacturing powerhouse that abuts Hong Kong, said last month it will help college graduates and young entrepreneurs to find work in villages. It also encouraged rural youth to return to the countryside to look for jobs there." cnn.com/2023/04/30/econom.. #A Glance of China 行摄中国