China Sees 1 in 7 Young Urban Workers Jobless: Official Data

Epoch Times ^ | 09/17/2021 | Rita Li

[SeekAndFind]

Monthly updated data indicates one out of every seven young urban workers in China failed to find employment in August, including graduates from high schools, colleges, and universities.

China’s urban unemployment rate was 5.1 percent in August, while the rate for those aged 16-24 is three-times higher sitting at 15.3 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Wednesday.

Yet the official rate for the latter in August 2019—before the pandemic hit—was two percent lower.

Commentator Wen Xiaogang said the large volume of jobless young people flagged the inconsistency of Beijing’s claim on economic recovery beyond the impact of COVID-19.

The latest data show China’s factory output growth in August hit a 13-month low as the Delta variant surged in southeast China.

Observers also worried that the Chineses Communist Party’s crackdown on the off-campus tutoring industry left young people looking for jobs struggling even more.

In late July, China’s Ministry of Education officially banned for-profit tutoring on core school subjects as both young private tutors and graduates saw jobs vanishing. The authorities also barred the once-promising businesses from raising capital or going public.

Additionally, the August average weekly working hours decreased by 0.2 hours to 47.5 hours, regarding all employed workers in the nation’s enterprises, the data showed.

[Jonty30]

It helps explain China’s belligerence the last little while. Their economy may be going into a depression.

[datura]

Thank you for the feel good article!!

[Jonty30]

A second point to add, these are Chinese numbers. It’s likely closer to 20%, I suspect.

[lee martell]

There must be a whole lot of angry Tiger Moms over in China right about now. I can almost hear the yelling;
“Get A Job, Mr. Lazy! I’m done paying for all of your phones!”

[datura]

Oh, you don’t know Chinese moms in China!!!

The boys are treated as little princes, who can do nothing wrong. “Mommas boy”doesn’t go far enough to describe these cretins.

Girls are treated poorly, at best.

[lee martell]

Therein lies the problem. Pampering.
So then, where did that Tiger Mom reputation come from?
Maybe it had to do with Asian-American Moms specifically.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

This is true...specifically with my MIL. She was half Chinese. Her father ruled with an iron fist. Especially with the girls. Had to fetch his pipe and slippers when he would come home from work.

When her father died...the family biz went to the son. The girls didn’t see a penny.

[datura]

I have had two wives from China. The lady from Xiamen was a total monster, my current (and last wife) is from near Shanghai. Lots of Chinese girlfriends in between them - I know Chinese moms very well.

It’s hard to explain real Chinese ladies to Americans - I did not understand them well for many years. (Hence the poor choices in my past.)

[NWFree]

They could be building high rises for demolition

[romanesq]

“I have had two wives from China. The lady from Xiamen was a total monster, ...”

Culturally, I hear the man is viewed as a financial pipeline for her family and her loyalty is to them not the husband.

Correct?

[Moltke]

Millions of unemployed young men of military age, who cannot find wives either.... history has always had a specific solution for that.

[Steven Tyler]

CCP’s one child policy led to a male/female imbalance
Now, male yutes cannot find a job

Not a good recipe for a civil society