same here... i have a degree in accounting from one of the top schools in china... After 2 years, i still couldnt land an accounting job. I applied for 500+ positions. I only got 2 interviews. I got burned out in the end, now i just work as a waiter/server in a hotel. It's not necessarily im not competent enough, but when there r tens of thousands of qualified applicants, HR can only do so much to pick their hiring. They r not gonna look at all the applications. So u really need to have some luck in China to look for the job u want Yes i use VPN to watch youtube from china. Its common.
It's time to start creating companies rather than waiting for companies to hire you. Chinese people 1 generation ago with no education and no money dove into entrepreneurship. Create your own future!
@@drewh3224 As an employer, people have different personalities (strengths/weaknesses). Some are creators and some are maintainers. If you're not a creator, you have to find someone that is as a business partner. Just saying that someone should be an entrepreneur is a bit myopic in the sense that not everyone is mentally capable of being one. Just as some people are fantastic janitors but horrible accountants. Some traits cannot be learned.
I think world has become very unkind to the young graduates in every part of the world. I hope this changes as it is resulting in alarmingly high levels of depression and hopelessness among young minds whom we call our future. They are not even able to afford anything and even dreaming for them has become a painful luxury.
We (I mean companies and businesses) simply need more cheap labor not skilled labor. What was supposed to be "easy ticket" to jobs became filled with competition
I blame parents convincing their kids ino getting a degree because they think it will help them. I also thinkk there are a lot of useless degrees that should deleted or made into apprenticeships.
They don't want to give jobs to young people then they wonder why these young people don't want kids 🙄 how are they supposed to feed and educate their kids if they don't have any money???
they want people to have kids and go destitute, bc then the parents and the children will have no choice but go to the factory, all the educated people rich enough have moved overseas to earn there
That's the difference between china and western countries: Unemployed people her get even more children and then complain they cannot make end's meat because they have children to feed.
😂😂Why aren't young Americans working? Why are they living with grandparents playing video games and smoking pot in the basement? YOUNG Americans REAL unemployment is 40%! WHY ISN'T ANY AMERICANS WORKING? thats the bigger question....
My nephew got his masters degree in computer science from a respected university in China, he was unemployed for more than 3 years, eventually he found a job but totally unrelated to his education and with a lower salary, the job market in China is in a pretty bad situation.
What made him different from anyone else?? That's the issue. People think, oh I have this degree and MUST get a job. Nope. You have to have other qualities, aka soft skills to be more valuable to the few jobs open. I only have a bachelor's in engineering, I'm 28, and now manage a group with many having masters and up.
I am Chinese. The reason is now the China is unlike before, the crazy surge of wealth come from real estate and e-commerce is ended. Also most people are almost the same when they graduated. Those graduated students may not have the experience and skills that employers really need.
1) Xinahs problem. Not our problem. 2) China and Xi are toast. Decades of BS bla bla subsidised prestige money burning idiotic 'infrastructure and real estate development' programs and given away and dumping trashy inferior always 'kaputt 'often dangerous banned in abroad export markets produce and services. More like everything for almost free; pirated often 100% fake or non existing, hyperinflation over debted type (export and consumer ) goods and services nobody thus needs or wants. Ergo a imbecile top down commie national socialist type economy and state and local government kleptocrats, roming off and stealing revenue with crazy CEO management salaries and bonuses and bizar overpriced - though nobody wants or can afford to live there or in it - money laundering real estate 'projects' in China and oversees, bought or developed by Chinese abroad: killed it further. And I warned XI, stick with one child policy, more then a decade ago! And wages for the average mr and mr Wong are way to low and labor conditions that leads 'workers' drop out for health reasons to early from the labor market .! Plus that for geopolitical reasons and universal human rights issues; nobody decent in this worlds wants to have anything to do with China. All of this, and the Xinas subsidised EV frenzy nobody needs or wants, killed it! That now the average millenial Chines is married to his or her sister or brother, or cousin plus a 'healthy dosis cocaine or Fentanyl, speed or crack' etc, doesn't help either (And no i'm not trying to be funny). In short: Obvious bad 'policies' killed the Chinese economy 100%. O and let's not forget skyrocketing Krypto lending / debt.
But blue collar sector in china is hiring like crazy. it's so bad that in Guangdong province they're brining in Africans to take those jobs. They need to fill those with young Chinese instead of africans.
Sure but the trick is finding a network of useful people with real power in the company in terms of hiring. A friend of a friend at a company who sees the job and thinks "company is hirng" are next to useless.
Are you telling me that qualified applicants that send out 200 resumes and get no job get discouraged? Im shocked. I dont imagine firms intend to hire these people even a year after they graduate so i guess their future labour pool will be cut in half.
Sending out blind resumes is more a method of last resort to get a job. In an economy like China's the best method is knowing someone within the company. Then some type of mentorship or internship program. There is also the issue of fake job postings by major companies, so they look like they are healthy financially. I find sending out resumes is a time-consuming process if you want to be hired. It's not something you send out a generic resume to few hundred companies hoping for a bite. Each one takes researching the company, looking at their corporate jargon and incorporating that into your cover letter (add the company's core values to your letter), and sampling out all the skill keywords and putting them into your resume. With this method, I usually at least make it to the hiring recruiter and get a callback for 1 in 10 resumes. I also send out generic resumes to jobs I am not interested in or don't think I have a chance at getting. Usually, the response rate to those is 1 in 1000.
@@emptiester In China it can be thousands and no job. Blue collar sector is thriving they want young workers, but young people aren't taking those jobs. In China blue collar pays more salary, but they still won't take those jobs.
Their youth unemployment is most likely much higher than 20.8%. They count 1 hour of work per week as employment. Figures might be close to 40% Edit: Sources are WSJ, Bloomberg, Fortune and more. Don’t take my word for it. Google it yourself.
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When everyone is pursuing higher education, the higher paid jobs will then be car mechanic and plumbing. It's the same issue everywhere, everyone want their kids to work in a cubicle in the middle of a skyscraper, no one is willing to have their kids be the construction workers that built those buildings.@@upthedown1
Lying flat doesn't mean they don't get a job. Lying flat simply just mean they get work-life balance and not working overtime. You guys misunderstood lying flat.
We all live in a digital connected world and Everyone one is realizing, that we are all nothing but Wage slaves, who would want to even have kids if that's also going to also be there're future.
In US, they can get a loan/VC and open businesses. That has always been the case. If you don't want to work for someone else, then work for yourself. But if you can't convince people to buy your stuff, then you have no rights to complain.
@@jason4275 What? It takes minutes to open a company. No one gets denied unless you're a criminal or something. You also can get VC if you have a great idea.
@@doujinflip It's bizarre that China is communist which is supposed to care about people, fairness. US is capitalist which is supposed to be ruthless, darwinistic. Age discrimination is illegal in the US. Openly (proudly) practiced in China. It's like China is a perverse form of capitalism. "Anything goes.... as long as it benefits the elite -- who pander to 'collective' imperatives."
I'm Chinese,and I can telling you guys that's more than that,Substantial wage arrears and worker insecurity and growing corruption and government surveillance, unemployment youth it's already like 40% ，Because the statistical method of the China Bureau of Statistics is that as long as you have money in your account, you are not considered unemployed. You are counted as a freelancer. This means that if you cannot find a job, you will not be counted as unemployed even if you get dozens of dollars begging on the Internet.
ancient china got it right, when en emperor died his concubines went with him. got rid of the junk and left more doors open for the younger generation.
I think this is a real issue in the west as well. Many of the kids graduating from university can’t find jobs. This is weighing heavily on their mental health.
the difference here is in china, these people are graduating from top of their class in ENGINEERING, DOCTORS, LAWYER, there are too many of them lmao, where as in the west u got too many people graduating with useless degrees that are useless in a capitalist world.
And the boomer cartel controls politics, so if they find any sort of job, they need to hand over most of their income to taxes and rent while the boomers are living large and partying.
it absolutely is but the media always have to shift our attention away from our own problems so these fat cat CEOs dont get pressured to pay their employees more. All media is literally owned by 2 of these fat useless cats.
@@hebin217it's a problem for the Chinese students in the US. My nephew who just graduated in the US can't go back to China because going back to shanghai means unemployment. As a result, my cousin has to pay him to stay in school. Every Chinese in the US are sharing stories of how bad the economy is in China right now.
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Since 2000, China's economy has been in a phase of continuous growth. In the past 20 years, China has not faced a true economic crisis, even during the 2008 global financial crisis. Therefore, this current situation presents a real challenge for China. If resolved successfully, it could propel the entire society into the next stage of development. Twenty years ago, China was primarily a country focused on primary processing and manufacturing, with low technological and capital thresholds. Most people could benefit from it. However, China is now undergoing a transformation into an advanced manufacturing nation, with companies across various industries upgrading their capabilities. At this stage, ordinary people may not immediately enjoy the benefits of this transition.
No it doesn't, they have accumulated a massive war chest, a strong manufacturing base, rich in rare Earth minerals, a public wealth, with allot of those SOEs in the resource sector pulling in profits. Real estate is only a fraction that has always been driven by speculation.
@@linusmayden8465 It does, reality can be avoided except the consequences of avoiding reality cannot be avoided. Why is most of Chinese household assets and GDP in real estate and not equities? -The_Expidition They dont trust the stock market. They trust a product they can touch - but maybe too much. -Patrick Boyle 65% is in real estate 20% is in bank deposits and cash, 8% is in insurance and pension, 4% is in stocks and mutual funds, with 3% in other. Source: Noah Research ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uyzZW6fpzik.html
@@HoangTran-wu6se The property sector needs to shrink, it's BS speculation and over valuing, idk where you're getting your 1/3rd of the sector from but a huge sector of China is still industry, service sector, finance, I.T., etc. Construction alone doesn't fall under just "real estate," that's less than 15 percent of the economy, the Chinese government uses its funds to build infrastructure projects through their SOEs which would fall under construction.
@@linusmayden8465Yes all the industries such as service,,finance, IT are all fuelled by a construction and real estate boom, they will all suffer now because of this property collapse
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Let us look at the fact. In the USA: The University of Washington reports that after graduating, approximately 53% of college students are either unemployed or working in a job that didn't require a degree. Now to the economy: Growth of Chinese economy is “slower” than expected at 5.5% - China is going to collapse Growth of UK economy “higher” than expected at 0.5% - wow beyond expectations Growth of Germany economy “higher” than expected at 0.4% - fantastic USA with 1.8 trillion printing of money grew 2.4%-wow amazing! A lot of western media over hype all issues dealing with China.
Never look a what they say. Alwyas look at their actions. And China simply stop giving the data. An action that says more than a 500 page book full of words
Considering the massive demographic decline this is a really bad sign. In any other healthy economy there’d be a labor shortage and employers would be fighting tooth and nail for talented young people.
Usually a sign of being 'top heavy' in industry that's declining in wealth/growth. A growing economy would hire more people because the business supports expansion. China, can't start over, so the normal death, rebirth, renewal and growth can't be kept dormant or 'sleeping', especially if there's too much supply and not enough demand. The normal market trend is to deflate enough that new growth or new demand is possible. But, if you try to keep the market intact, that growth also has to be created artificially or via staged interventions. And, yeah, with demographic collapse, i.e. aging population, urban sprawl and debt/bankruptcy starting to push people out of cities, they are going to face a structural change in the population density. People will move out of dense cities when there's no opportunity. They probably would already have done so, except this is likely being prevented as well. Residency is controlled heavily, to keep economic indicators. A city that has no jobs available... looks successful until you start seeing riots, high value crime/thefts, moving trucks and bodies in the streets. not in that order. People will push against restrictions when they can't leave or go elsewhere and they gain a purpose or message. And that's the next decade in big cities. Either the upper class and middle class unemployed leave, start something/somewhere else, or they pull apart the walls looking for options. Eternal Growth isn't viable without steady expansion to support collapses and allow for a smoother path to failure/obsolesence. That's where China is now. They don't have that ramp or step to take to slow down the economy artificially. That stagnation can't be held forever across a wide range of industries and utilities. There's not enough 'escape valves' that can be pulled to start new growth, except perhaps war or debt consolidation/obscuring. Even then, War/Trade footings also require participants who need 'stuff'. Which is probably the third world at this point, there's not a lot of places that have the kind of trade volume china needs to grow and allow the normal volume of trade they've been used to handling. A depressed economy that has Delusional indicators, can really only rely on debt or credit loans to prop up businesses that aren't allowed to collapse. The lack of circulating money, slowly and inevitably drops value, but it takes a lot of collapse and defaults to reduce the purchasing value. If the market is being 'buffered', prices can't drop, and growth/supply can't resume. The normal demand also reduces because people don't have the same available income and luxury goods, utilities, investment and loans are going to suffer. When operating costs keep increasing due to debt/income loss, there is usually a need to move, contract or stop. When the market contracts, or there's a serious banking/government problem with spending, growth/planning is artificially stopped, hoping that the market will rebalance or prices will adjust to demand/supply levels. i.e. Seniors aren't leaving/retiring due to economic depression, so they won't hire new staff or start new projects that need trainees or extra labor. Execs stick around to gain more benefits, or simply to pay rising costs at home, or to pay off mortgage/loans/debts. New staff won't get brought in when there's division losses, and because there's nobody leaving, and nobody is making enough to expand, the business has to slow and contract, or drop staff and contract. Usually both. There are often 'base' industries that can survive a deflation/depression, but China isn't a normal economy, it has too much pride/face, and too much invested in government support, so it can't rely on protectionist or nationalist spending efforts to buffer the economy. Not unless it wants to bolster the youth market and focus on the middle class being moved into new areas.
Labor shortage? India, which actually having good economy growth also having same unemployment rate right now, why? Because somehow, these media totally looked over the fact that both India and China is not what they were few years ago, both now have more educated young workforce, which means they wont apply for factory workers but office workers while their economy is mostly focused on manufacturing jobs, obviously it will be a problem, but in a short term If this keep happening means worker cost in sectors that need educated workers like IT and finance gonna be plummet,this create growth for those sectors which cause transition from manufacturing economy to service economy
Exactely: it would be bad in poor African countries where there are too many teenagers competing for jobs, but it's extra worrisome in countries like china that don't have an oversupply of young laborers.
That last comment is interesting, especially since how, about 100+ yrs ago, students of traditional Chinese Confucian schools found themselves over-educated and unemployable in a changed world
Qing government stopped Keju examine on 1905, which has been on 3 year schedule over the entire dynasty. Students didn’t wait 2 full cycle before going berserk and revolution started 1911.
This is why it’s ok to push back against your parents if they insist you go to college. There are plenty of in demand trade skills out there that can earn an income.
@@magesalmanac6424 College doesn't guarantee a better income, but it does give your many more options. Besides, many benefits require you to have a bachelor or at least an associate degree.
Isn't the same thing happening here in U.S. also? There are little to no companies that want to take a chance of a young mind with no work experience these days. Hence experience > degrees.
😂😂Why aren't young Americans working? Why are they living with grandparents playing video games and smoking pot in the basement? YOUNG Americans REAL unemployment is 40%! WHY ISN'T ANY AMERICANS WORKING? thats the bigger question....
@upthedown1 where are you? Either living at parents home or on the street in a tent. Both young and old. I'm in an upper middle-class neighborhood in Dallas. Neighbor across the street graduated with MA is Corp accountant security ... can't find a job. Original offered by kpmg... they change their mind due to the unknown economy. On my block, we have 3 college graduates who can't find a job. Living with parents for 1 yr already. But, if you Live in 92010... you don't need a job. Lol
I recruit for my firm in India. I have pending vacancies for which i cant find able people. My recruitment strategy now focuses on women who took a career break and want to rejoin or guys who want to quit a toxic corporate life for a comfortable and a reasonable paying job. I am also thinking of recruiting students from university campus who dont want corporate jobs. Everyday the work pressure on existing staff is increasing.
There has been youth unemployment problems in China every year since I can remember. I think probably this year’s situation is not anything different from years past, but because of high visibility lay-offs from the tech sector, people paid more attention to it this year.
One minute it's not enough young people leading to population collapse, next minute it's too many unemployed young people. Which one is it? Or is it that the number of young people is dropping but the economy is shrinking even faster?
You're right. As a Chinese person, I believe there are three main points: There is an imbalance between the supply and demand of talent. China produces a large number of high-quality talents every year, but there are very few job opportunities available. Too many people who shouldn't have received higher education are getting educated. While this helps stabilize society from the government's perspective, it wastes productivity for societal production. China's position in international affairs is ambiguous, resulting in consecutive economic sanctions (although I personally feel that even if the position is right, there may not be many benefits). The most significant issue is that for the government, stability is crucial even if it means sacrificing the happiness of the common people. Therefore, policies are designed to benefit national development, but they may not be favorable for individuals.
You could tell that the video is unbalanced because CNBC doesn't have any reporters in China so all data available is open for interpretation. The video won't mention American youth unemployment which has the same levels as China's or that if China's trade is down so are its trading partners as it is correlated.
@rcbrascan wow... both of your first two points are 100% wrong.. And it's pretty well known that China is the worlds factory.. you definitely hear on American media about how a slow down in China can affect the U.S. economy/ stock market. Not sure why you just pull things out of your ass.
Funny, because in China, most students are going into STEM majors and attaining STEM degrees, and they aren't able to get a job. You might be talking about other countries and NOT China. Lol.
No. What he is proposing is a focus on the Blue Collar Skills and Trades that will always be in demand e.g. Electricians, Plumbers, Welders, Carpenters, elevator repairman, HVAC Repair, Auto Mechanics. The University degree is overrated, especially if it saddles you with a mountain of debt with no guarantied job. @@Mark-4158
@jamms2966 I'd rather live in a tent then work hard all my life and have nothing in the end. At the very least I'll be stress free. Living paycheck to paycheck and managing debt is not a life.
Quite true, there are many Chinese who would rater quit and spend their money out after a while in work before getting a new job, and some dont even do anything , just stay at home playing PC games.
They can grow by 8% in jobs but those jobs based off the vid are in the low skills service industry. Which I guarantee you they wouldn't take. Thus upside down.
@@djm2189 That's College/University graduate jobs. There's likely a vast number of people graduating high school and living in rural areas that have not been modernised or connected with highways and roads, several decades after the 1970/80s. They grow up in these villages with no upwards or sideways mobility to gain transport out of their villages to work for agents or working co-ops. I'd imagine a lot of places never got past being wired for phone/electricity, or had paved roads or access highways for goods. Not enough value was given to build tunnels or bridges out of these places when airports built near rivers would suffice. There's just seemingly urban 'underemployed', vast numbers working 2-3 hours a week to fill the numbers, clean shelves, sweep the paths, hold signs, move goods, deliver food, etc. and these people aren't in their teens of 20s, they're in their 30/40/50/60/70/80s etc. filling in the labour gaps for low, low wages. Why pick up a skilled applicant when you can hire 40 people for the same wage as 1 qualified person, and claim it's for 'prestige' or 'exposure', or 'work trial/experience' There's still farmland and mountains around Beijing, FWIU ~2 hours out, that has not been adapted into Urban or Suburban wealth/mercantile districts, likely because the area would require a Massive investment in commercial and industrial incentive programs, i.e. why build a factory when there's no road to move the goods in or out, no airport, no railway, no staff, power/water/gas might not be connected, no lodge/residents that would move 2 hours out of town, et al. And, you'd have to pay off a grand number of local bureaucrats to get permits and allocations for Utilities, power, gas, roads built, airports, cable/internet, etc. It sounds simple, but a lot of that period of time where urban diaspora would normally evolve with needs, has been artificially created, so when the growth stops, the planning also stops, and there's no buffer to move people into new community areas at a lower pay grade or lower skill set to cultivate new growth. Especially if you need a huge number of people to just pick up their lives and move into the middle of a new-build starter village that doesn't have schools, is 95% highrise apartments, 0.1% shops and 1-2% industrial areas and 4% government buildings. Except, nobody's in the government buildings. Colossal failure on top of greed and wealth disparity.
In Canada, you will be surprised if you know how many Uber drivers have their Master degree. We are living in a world that educated people could not find jobs in their field.
US people shall not discriminate China because China choose one party system instead of using two party system. One party system let China develop much faster. Nowadays China is much more developed than India, Brazil or other developing countries. Its streets are cleaner and safer than most developed countries. Its life expectancy is also 2 years longer than US life expectancy and 9 years longer than India life expectancy . See UK man compare Beijing with London. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--ciOmqkgRl4.htmlsi=DK32HBYOS8tEAkzm Expressway length in China reach 177,000 kms vs US 76,000 kms and India 4,900 kms. High speed railway length in China reach 42,000 kms vs both 0 kms in US and India.
On pretty much every meaningful metric (per capita GDP, median household income/ savings, quality of life, life expectancy etc...) Australia is well ahead of China.
@@freeman10000 Australia is different. 25 million live in a big continent. China population density is 46 times higher than Australia. To have same population density like China, Australia will have 1.15 billion people. At this population density, Australia will not have mineral , LPG, meat left for export. Then it will not have money to buy cars, furniture, building materials etc from overseas to maintain high living quality.
Why do people feel the need to get more and more degrees?? Because the jobs they currently have don’t provide a comfortable life. No one addresses this the job market today does not work for the majority
if the CCP actually survive this current catastrophe the 1 child policy is gonna bite them in the ass next. because it has tottaly destroyed the Population pyramid. China is Gonna have way to many elderly people in just 3-4 decades. compared to the amount of young people. This even happens in well developed Countries that dont have insane Communist policies.
Everyone keeps throwing this 20.8% number around, but I find the age range to be quite strange (16-24). Why would a 16-18 year old have a job, are they not supposed to be in secondary education? And isn’t there a large number of college students? That would mean that substantial number of 18-22 year olds also would not have jobs since they are in college. Can anyone explains to me the significance of this specific age range?
I am not challenging the percentage, I am asking why is that specific age range being used to qualify “youth unemployment” when a substantial portion of people in that age group are not supposed to have jobs at all
sure, but even if that is the case (according to Statista 59.7% of the 2022 age cohort attended college) those two year would have huge impact on that 20.8% metric@@AchiraDasgupta
Unemployment rates only count those actively looking for work. So this covers recent graduates looking for full time work or teenagers trying to part time work. It doesn't count students who aren't looking for work.
3:46 Inaccurate map shows Taiwan as part of China. Not correct. Taiwan has its own employment issues, but it is different from China's. Please do not conflate the two countries. Do better, CNBC!
0:20: 📉 China's economy is facing multiple challenges including a youth unemployment problem, a slowdown in hiring for recent graduates, and a decline in the real estate sector. 3:12: 📉 China's economy is facing challenges with declining consumer confidence, weak service sector, and reduced imports and exports. 6:23: 📉 China's younger demographic groups, known as professional children, are facing intense competition for jobs and limited opportunities due to a shift in the job market. 9:18: 🇨🇳 China's focus on long-term growth through investment in technology, including AI, may not be good for job creation but is crucial for its economic future. Recap by Tammy AI
एक अनुमान है की चीन की अर्थव्यवस्था अब सिर्फ ७० लाख करोड़ रुपये की रह गए है याने की भारतसे सिर्फ दोगुनी और उसके रिज़र्व फंड १४०० अरब डॉलर के याने भारत से दो गुने जो की छे ६ गुनसेभी जादाकि थी
Do the metaphoric math: Year 1: 100 top-qualified applicants employed of 1,000 freshly qualified applicants. Year 2: 10 top-qualified applicants employed of 1,900 recently qualified applicants. Year 3: 2 top-qualified applicants employed of 2,890 recently qualified applicants. There inevitably comes a painful point where an expensive education is not really needed to fill available positions. This problem does not only apply to China.
Exactly, people believe that this "degree" will give me X job. Used too when the market wasn't flooded, but now you have to still have that degree but also soft skills that make you more attractive. I only got a bachelor's in engineering but now at 28, earn $115k and hardly work 30hrs/week. Meanwhile many people I know with masters work in low pay jobs. You've gotta have that edge or else what's the difference between 2 people with the same qualifications?
Why is CNBC so worried about Chinese youth unemployment? There are major concerns with homelessness, gun violence, unemployment, immigrants, inflation and economy over here in major cities.
As far as I know unemployment rates in New York are rising, and in my experience it's impossible to find a job without work experience which you can't get unless you're hired and these are just mere jobs that do not require degrees.
@@razorburn7745 I'm sure it also is because the wage there is horrible compared to the price to live and I think more people with skills live there while people who are unskilled are unable to sustain a life in California. Would be a nice problem to have here though 😔
@richardm7713 Very true! And what really sucks is when you get a job that pays you enough to live somewhere, the taxes taken from your paycheck puts you back to square one.
@@razorburn7745 Only small businesses, but no one is going to survive on those wages. Getting a decently paying job is extremely competitive and difficult everywhere.
ancient china got it right, when an emperor died his concubines went with him. Now there is a plague of old ladies. this plague takes the jobs, or the young people pay taxes to support them.
The issue has been getting so much attention that China decided to stop publishing the data altogether. Experts point to several reasons for the slow pace of hiring for recent graduates, including an imbalance in supply and demand for jobs that require a college degree and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy. Meanwhile, investment in real estate has plummeted, and policies from Beijing have forced property developers like Evergrande and Country Garden to default on their debts and eventually file for bankruptcy. Consumer confidence has been declining since the beginning of the year, and the service sector has been particularly weak. Imports and exports to and from the country are down in most sectors, and the Chinese government has cut interest rates in an effort to contain market volatility during the economic downturn.
😂😂Why aren't young Americans working? Why are they living with grandparents playing video games and smoking pot in the basement? YOUNG Americans REAL unemployment is 40%! WHY ISN'T ANY AMERICANS WORKING? thats the bigger question....
@@seymorefact4333 The whole world is not working. Every one is struggling and it’s showing. Blame a lot of these big corporations companies that are pocketing and taking advantage of inflation while not paying its workers to live, eat and pay bills without go broke from pay check to pay check.
@trevaye8125 the USA govt hooked consumers on cheap money to borrow with low wages. A plan backed by USA Corp which owns our govt. Now, being exported to the rest of the world.
@@seymorefact4333 Your comment is based on false assumptions and misinformation. The real unemployment rate for young Americans (ages 16-24) is 8.6 percent as of August 2023, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is lower than the peak of 14.9 percent in April 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Young Americans are working hard to overcome the challenges of the economy and the pandemic, and they deserve respect and support, not insults and stereotypes.
The youth unemployment in this video is the late teens and early 20s. Dude, that's like the schooling era. In America, a high school student typically works minimum wage and lives with Mom and Dad, and a college student may get an entry-level job that just requires a high school diploma, also living with Mom and Dad to save living costs. WTF would make 6-figures straight out of college these days? Get real. High-paying bachelor's degrees are usually in engineering and other high-stress, high-risk jobs. For everybody else, they may pursue a second degree, some kind of professional certification/exam, or some kind of low-wage labor. Keep in mind that low-wage labor isn't exactly useless. You can use that in a résumé and say that you have gained customer service experience out of it or maybe agility skills, or maybe your perfect attendance to work shows how diligent you are.
How could you not have mentioned the US sanctions against the Chinese tech sector? That’s the main reason Chinese youth unemployment is approaching 50%. What about their shrinking population? What about the fact they’ve overestimated their population by over 100 million?
@@leezhieng Yeah youth unemployment are looking ok in other countries like Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore etc. Then you have China have like so bad number. Stop running away from issues, propaganda won't do you any favor. 中國食力
Why do we care about our own problems rather than caring about someone else’s problems? We are having $32 trillion dollar deficits and homeless problems banking crisis and gun violence and so on……
I know that not everyone dreams of going abroad. But if you are well educated and your country is unable to provide you with enough good jobs, consider emigrating. Western Europe is aging rapidly, we need well-educated people here. Plus, after a few years spent in Europe, paradoxically, there may be an option to return to China for a good position. The worst thing you can do is waste time on searches that produce no results. In some European countries we did this, until the economy improved, people were wasting the best years of their lives in low-paid jobs. Those who did not wait and left gained the most. Years later, they came back with savings and got a good job because the situation had improved.
those youth unemployment are high educated with college degree. The government punish heavily their tech industry such as Alibaba. Also Chinese ambition and aggression would limit foreign investment especially from Western countries. Xi Jin Ping common prosperity also cause issues as well.
Who the hell graduated with college degree at 16-24? In China most are still in high schools at the age of 18, started college at the age of 21, started degree at the age of 23 and graduate around 27. Of course these youths are unemployed because they are still studying?
I am wondering what the economy of China in 2030 is supposed to look like when the country is too old and too rich to work in factories producing cheap stuff. India has a booming IT services sector. What will Chinese professionals be doing?
It is between 16-24yrs. I don’t remember I had a meaningful job until 24yrs old, after my university. Before that only McDonald’s, Pizzahut, sandwich bars and coffee shops. This shows China is changing, meaning no youngsters want to work in sweatshops after their secondary school. 🎉
@@leezhieng Exactly. Statistics is one thing but interpretation of the statistics is another thing - there could be many other reasons including but not limited to (1)Chinese youngsters are spoiled by their parents; (2)the Chinese average family are rich enough not sending their children to employment for that age; (3)the youngsters don’t want to take low skilled jobs; (4)most youngsters are persuading higher education instead of talking up jobs; (5)Also there could be that the employers don’t want to hire youngsters because they lack of required skills (6) the job market is not good for youngsters. Without the follow-up survey it is difficult to understand the underlying reason for this phenomenon, and we need comparison between China and other OECD countries and developing countries.
Because the government didn’t care ordinary Chinese citizen……real estate collapse and debt in that field are very bad……they want baby but not providing anything……cost of living in Big city are ridiculous expensive…….the fall of Chinese society was predicted by MIT prediction in 1970….
The statistics might be already after such "job guarantees". Chinese universities are directed not to confer degrees until the graduate has a job lined up, and so enroll them on paper in some useless task to check the box on the 1 hour per week as their "employment".
@@zehechen920 The specific names of languages are proper nouns. This includes words such as English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Latin, German, and Russian.
A saying in inner China describes the situation of planned economy really well: In Chaos comes Control; In Control comes the Collapse; In Collapse comes Leniency; In Leniency comes Chaos… This is why many advanced economy are with minimal gov intervention, because the free market, though with lot of other flaws, is most adaptive to the changing environment.
Too young, too simple The fact that young Chinese don't want to continue making jeans, toys or assembling cameras for Apple mobile phones in factories is the reason for everything the video didn't mention. They need more Huawei sanctioned by the US. And in the automotive sector, do you think so-called new energy and e-vehicles would be the mainstream of public opinion if the US and China weren't working hand in hand to impact the power of countries like Germany?
Capitalism. This is a number of jobs vs population problem. Sure the world is not a zero sum game as many optimists would like to believe. But at the rate of population growth vs job creation which in turn uses resources on a currently finite earth be it physical space to establish work to actual material used in work. If there was infinite resource then physical space and value of resources wouldn't be a barrier, and everyone can get fed by automated bots, whilst they go off doing what they wish to be inventing or creating new stuff, or whatever it is they want. And that's not even delving into the sheer impracticality of asteroid mining for resources as many optimists would also point out. This non zero sum world is what capitalists would want to believe, yet the current resources are only being extracted from this Earth. Not only that but the waste created in land, sea, and atmospheric pollution is also being done at an unsustainable rate. In this sense, the system is created to benefit those now by living on 'borrowed time' or borrowed resources. The wealth generated sure is great, but even then it isn't properly distributed. The world population boom since the industrial revolution is at the cost of this borrowed resources and time that we have. Just like pumping out ground water to grow a field in a desert, when it runs out the fields will wither. To be sustainable, something has got to give. And this unemployment issue shines light on how it's becoming unsustainable for a new generation to thrive, much less survive, if it weren't for the previous generations borrowed wealth. It's now a normal thing, if not considered a good thing for countries to run a deficit, and America's deficit is in the trillions. Sure it can pay it off, but it'll gut the country to do so. Was capitalism worth it? It gave us plenty of thrills and enjoyment beyond what most of humanity could conceive off. But now we pay the price. But yaay Fortnite!
It's no better in America. We're just in denial about it. College students are under employed, most jobs pay under $25/hour. New graduate unemployment is around 66%, only 45% of college grads work in a field related to their degree.
I sometimes wonder if these unemployment figures are true. This is because, the population figures may have been inflated by local governments to get more funding from the central government. One study (don't have a link to it) found that these figures may be inflated as much as 10% which means there might be reported figures for 100 million people across China that don't exist. If this is true it will mean Chinas demographic issues with the 1 child policy will come a lot sooner.
Ryan, China’s youth unemployment figure at around 21% is not true. The true figure as I have read is around 46%. In the U.S.A. and E.U. the figure is 10%.
Just attacking China. It is part of American's agenda to spread lies about China in hoping to spread sinophobia. Any country USA does not like, it will spread lies about that country.
China is advancing economically. In an effort to fill out certain high-yield fields like tech, they pushed a generation towards these sectors. Now they have a misallocation of workers. A full economy takes a balance of workers in many sectors. Using other nations as an example, this usually means a growing need for physical labor jobs. The issue is the devaluation of these jobs by college educated people who make decisions on compensation. Most of them cannot work in a field for 8 hours a day or perform a myriad of skilled trades. In the US this compensation is being adjusted as trade jobs like Truck Driving, Construction, and Utilities pay higher than most low to mid level tech jobs. The other issues China faces is its Communist system. For all the workers necessary for a healthy functioning economy, they are all secondary to the Communist Party. No matter how successful you are in China, you will never be able to have a higher quality of life than a member of the Communist Party. Given China's belt and road initiative, there is opportunity for young people abroad.
Just want to tell you one thing, a random rich guy in China can buy whatever luxuries he can afford, but not a single government officials of CCP dare to do so in public.
1) Xinahs problem. Not our problem. 2) China and Xi are toast. Decades of BS bla bla subsidised prestige money burning idiotic 'infrastructure and real estate development' programs and given away and dumping trashy inferior always 'kaputt 'often dangerous banned in abroad export markets produce and services. More like everything for almost free; pirated often 100% fake or non existing, hyperinflation over debted type (export and consumer ) goods and services nobody thus needs or wants. Ergo a imbecile top down commie national socialist type economy and state and local government kleptocrats, roming off and stealing revenue with crazy CEO management salaries and bonuses and bizar overpriced - though nobody wants or can afford to live there or in it - money laundering real estate 'projects' in China and oversees, bought or developed by Chinese abroad: killed it further. And I warned XI, stick with one child policy, more then a decade ago! And wages for the average mr and mr Wong are way to low and labor conditions that leads 'workers' drop out for health reasons to early from the labor market .! Plus that for geopolitical reasons and universal human rights issues; nobody decent in this worlds wants to have anything to do with China. All of this, and the Xinas subsidised EV frenzy nobody needs or wants, killed it! That now the average millenial Chines is married to his or her sister or brother, or cousin plus a 'healthy dosis cocaine or Fentanyl, speed or crack' etc, doesn't help either (And no i'm not trying to be funny). In short: Obvious bad 'policies' killed the Chinese economy 100%. O and let's not forget skyrocketing Krypto lending / debt.
The same old story: there is fewer employment and so people consume less, therefore leading to more paying jobs disappearing, and so fewer people consume, and so on and so forth. No employment with a decent amount of disposable income equals no consumption.
If those theories regarding A.I - which posit a lot of job losses, including among the middle classes - come true, are we perhaps likely to see qualified people from 'developed' countries moving to 'developing' countries instead of working in their home economy, because their labour is still valued there? Or will A.I. innovations just be quickly shipped to those developing countries too?
The effects of "AI" (Machine Learning) on jobs has been wildly overstated, first by ML companies looking for investors, then by news outlets looking for clicks. Source: ECE who has worked with the stuff.
