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Interesting, but please avoid the background music playing all the time while telling the story… It was mostly sad underlining, of course, the sad reality of these young people. But it’s also influential. I’d like to watch a documentary without being influenced by its music.
In the post three years, each year China has 10 million college grads, how many of them find jobs? Only very small percentage get jobs, millions of college grads deliver foods. Yes , Youth unemployment is everywhere. But, China has highest youth unemployment in the world!
Thank you for this video. I just told a bunch of Chinese that Skyscrapers do not impress me in China because it is only a facade. Skyscrapers doesn't mean anything in any Country.
This is actually a world wide situation, its not endemic to China. A family member in the Caribbean is struggling with finding a job and they are a university graduate in civil engineering.
In America right now you can get any job you want and work as many hours as you want, everyone is hiring and new businesses are being started all the time. New buildings and houses are being built, you can get a construction job easy as pie.
I come from Vietnam. Currently my job is as a translator and I earn about $1,500 per month. I have been working for the company for nearly 6 years and have saved about $50,000. My plan is that when I turn 40, I will quit my job at the company and return to my hometown to work in the fields. I like living in the countryside and like farming. I think if it's too difficult to make money in the city, young people can return to their hometown to work in the fields.
I find it fascinating that under Chinese socialism there are no state pensions for people outside main cities. In my home country Croatia (which had socialism during Yugoslavia) we still have state pensions for every worker. It is often not much, but even people who never worked get some minimal amount each month after they turn 65. That is definetly not enough to cover all daily expenses, but many people rely on family/relatives and some have a little side-hustle. My point being - what kind of socialism is that when you don't provide social benefits for your people? That's socialism in name only!
It's socialism with Chinese characteristics. Like German National socialism was communism with fascist characteristics, but still 'socialism'. These isms are whatever governments want them to be. It's basically capitalism/ corporatism but they have to keep calling it communism until the older generation die off then. Only then will they be honest about it.
They are oligarchs. They always have been. Communism and Socialism are code for keeping the wealthy wealthy, like Free Market is code for making the rich richer.
It's the middle income trap. Nearly impossible to escape it for large populations. And, especially if your economy is based on manufacturing exports. Korea, Taiwan and Singapore managed to move past it. Some of the Gulf states, but that's more oil driven. I have some amateur non-market driven ideas, but I'm no economist.
Except in Brazil and India the people didn't sell their freedoms for promised prosperity-they can still worship how they want, say what they want, form any organization they want, create the art they want, write what they want, read on the internet what they want, publish what they want, and most importantly, defend themselves before an independent judiciary.
Culturally, Chinese are hard workers. In China or Chinatown in America, They don’t make much at all but long hours in Chinatown. My late mother was one. She worked hard so I could have a better life in America.
The term "work hard" is an emotional term which gets in the way of the logical thinking needed for success. It is much easier to achieve things by thinking logically than it is emotionally. Throwing around the term "hard work" promotes emotional thinking and thus is an impediment to success in life.
The ones who built Chinatowns all over the world are Teochews and Hokkiens and not the "Mainlanders". And most of them are of mixed ethnicities such as Viet-Chinese, Cambodian-Chinese, Laos
@@jiff2323 Everyone in China is enslaved by the CCP because they are aggressively coerced into 996 jobs and are paid very little for it. The CCP enslaves all of its citizens not just the Uhygurs.
rot and lie flat ... very sad when Youth unemployment reaches 25%. Brave for these 3 out of total of 300 that they asked for an interview, to come out and speak. For sure, able to speak out is a therapy on its own, but if you are not allowed to, that's even more painful.
Despite how dire this documentary makes the situation out to be in China, everyone still has a roof over his head, food on the table and family around him. Now compare that to America.
The USA? Which has a GDP per capita MUCH higher than China? Which currently has the strongest economy in the world to the point that China can’t even touch it? That USA? 😂😂
@@danix4883then why are there so many homeless people living on the streets of America?If you were in China now ,you will find it so hard to spot any homeless people
No one in my family in Canada struggle. We had 6 figure income for each earning member of our familjes and 3 house well apartment. Sure price is bit high but we can okay and many of my friends are all doing well.
Us millenials and gen z all over the world are subjected to these hard economies in our countries, yet governments have the audacity to be alarmed that we don't get married or have children like it used to be. It seems like there's a class crisis and cost of living crisis globally.
You are correct. The mega wealthy who do everything possible not to pay back into the system which allowed them to amass such obscene amounts of money are the cause.
It’s not like economic downturns are new. Economic boons and busts have always been around, and it’s never been easy to be a young adult. I graduated college in the 90s, at the height of the corporate downsizing craze, where most every company was laying off workers to become “leaner and more profitable.” Our college job fair was almost cancelled, as only the military recruiters came. People would post their many job rejection letters outside their dorm room door. And all the unemployed grads made grad schools much harder to get into. But people weathered it various ways and were doing fine in a few years. And the cost of living question is harder as entry level jobs NEVER paid for the lifestyle we consider middle class today. In my parents childhood, many who considered themselves “middle class” had no indoor bathroom, just an outhouse out back. Most people owned 3-4 changes of clothes, max, and their entertainment budget was “one radio or TV.” They had a house, but a 1500 ft house for a family was considered plenty big. Things like each kid getting their own room, college, health insurance, air conditioning, washer/dryers, beach vacations, plane tickets and much more were for the WEALTHY only. Now we consider all those things middle class necessities, plus much more, and that just costs more.
My favorite comedic moment in the state run government: Back in 2017, the government crackdowned on HNA Group because their debt levels were getting too high: on the books for $100B (a wild ownership structure though). In 2018, they crackdowned on Anbang Insurance which had assets listed at $300B (who knows) and debt levels likely the same. But, at the same time they let Evergrande and Country Garden keep accumulating more debt until they got to the same $200-300B range. And, we all know how that worked out.
The fact that we get free videos on UA-cam by ARTE is truly a gift; keeping education and knowledge alive. 👏🙏🏾🤷 May I also remind you of the fact that our Native American population in our motherland, the Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while the European population in their motherland, the Continent of Europe was around 25 millions. Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering TWO BILLION! A shockingly sad truth. 🙁 In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return to rightful owners Native American people. Notorious global cardinal crimes the Christian West has committed, and benefited a great deal, such as centuries-long global Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? 😔
My jaw dropped as I read Native American population in their motherland, the Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while the European population in their motherland, the Continent of Europe was around 25 millions. Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering TWO BILLION. It is a shockingly sad truth. 😔
For centuries, in vast bountiful resourceful North & South America, the motherland of Native American people, where the vast majority of the population, hundreds of millions of Europeans were from all over and every corner of Northern & Southern Europe brought in over to occupy the Native American lands. Similarly, here in the Asia-Pacific region, the vast majority of the population in vast bountiful resourceful Australia & New Zealand, tens of millions of Europeans were from all over Europe brought in over to the Asia-Pacific, the motherland of Native Asian-Pacific people.🤷 For hard truths, pls read the informative insightful, multi-pages comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism": ua-cam.com/video/z9SMN59vsGY/v-deo.htmlsi=QZ4aX9jmUdrbRoYL , (which by the way, got pushed down below 100 other comments lately).
For centuries, in vast bountiful resourceful North & South America, the motherland of Native American people, where the vast majority of the population, hundreds of millions of Europeans were from all over and every corner of Northern & Southern Europe brought in over to occupy the Native American lands. Similarly, here in the Asia-Pacific region, the vast majority of the population in vast bountiful resourceful Australia & New Zealand, tens of millions of Europeans were from all over Europe brought in over to the Asia-Pacific, the motherland of Native Asian-Pacific people.🤷 Truth is the light. Knowledge is power.. For hard truths, pls read the informative insightful, multi-pages comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle", on UA-cam (which by the way, got pushed down below 100 other comments lately).
@@gustywind-de7xb What happened to Native American people in their own motherland, wiping them out almost entirely after tens of thousands of years of profound culture.. It's really sad and disgusting how so many Native people of the Americas were wiped out by genocide and Colonization. Native American people have already lost their land, their population and most of all their future..The tragedy of Native Americans is the saddest thing ever happened in the history of mankind, and the most neglected one as well. 'Slavery, Genocide, Colonialism & Colonization' are all evil things done and benefited by evildoers. Speaking of Native American people who have not occupied an inch of European land, or slaughtered a single European in Europe; while European Colonizers have occupied both North & South America lands and terminated 99.9% of Natives population.. A shockingly sad truth. By the way, many thanks for the very informative multi-page comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism": ua-cam.com/video/z9SMN59vsGY/v-deo.htmlsi=QZ4aX9jmUdrbRoYL .
Nonsense. The Chinese people were as hard working and creative under Mao. The CCP controlled society then as it does now. China's "success" and progress is precisely because they changed tack, the rest of the world played ball and it reaped the "benefits".
Ignorant. You're speaking as if poor people can't have nice things. You didn't even have a clue how he bought that. It could be a gift, a refurbished phone, a second hand phone, or something that he's saved up for a long time.
@ Also says she has no savings left...then its wise to spend it on tech...such an idiot like you who are protecting it...guess you also have good car and phone then cry for being poor?
the fact that you and 40 who liked your comment actually still believes social credits exist lmao. Youve got free press in the West and still its plagued with stupidity.
I'm appreciative of these individual stories because we often see a focus on industrial and economic moves. These help keep us grounded about what those spreadsheets really mean at the end of the day.
There's exactly zero chance that Erchui currently earns $1500 EUR (~11,340rmb) per month right now at just 8 hrs/day. Maybe 5 years ago, but not today. He'd need to consistently deliver 5-10 orders per hour minimum and clear 5-10rmb per order (which I seriously doubt). It's an over-saturated occupation just like ride hailing. Too many riders competing for too few orders. Tons of them lounging around waiting for an order. Generally speaking, the tips suck unless they're delivering to foreigners who actually care. I like to give 20-25% to riders/drivers/maids etc because a) 20-25% in usd isn't exactly a windfall, and b) many of them deserve it. I'd be surprised if he's making half of what he claims. I wonder if he was simply saving face for the interview.
Despite all the problems mentioned, streets are clean, food is cheap, no gun violence, no homeless, no MAGA, no WOKE, no religious extremism either, there are far worse places in this world.
China - no free speech, no democracy, no religious freedom, CCP Eiltes living rich lives while the masses are told to endure hardship, cheap GMO plastic food : there are worse places, but China is rough
@@fsmith3692most of the homeless in China are migrants who have move to the city and have not found a place to live I was watching a documentary some westerner who had come back to the poorest village in China 1 year later As he walks in on a Poverty Alleviation Senior Social worker berating 5 or 6 Poverty Alleviation social workers because a deadline was fast approaching and they had a quotas to meet getting people in the village above a poverty line or they all including this Senior Social worker would get demoted/fired Where they for example had to make sure the villagers were signed up for some State healthcare plan where the State paid 95% of the bills Then this guys follows one social worker as he shows him the newly paved roads and new houses and the donated furnishings in a home Even with all that you could get a sense of fear and worry in this guy demeanour. As we find out he was some Government banking official who was demoted to this job And the only way you move back up is to meet your deadlines and quotas Is this a better system than we have in the west? Depends on if our Government is willing to build roads and houses for people with little expected return. And put peoples jobs on the line to get those results Type into a UA-cam Search “Revisiting China's poorest village”
If you're doing a report on China with interviews of Chinese people wouldn't it be proper, professional and respectful to learn Chinese names correctly?
I lived in China for the last 17 years and have traveled to India before. These 2 most populous countries set the worse example for socialism and democratic system.
I helped my father grow corn and soybean in the 1970s. I learned how to hunt and fish and gut and prep the kill. Growing up in Mississippi this was normal.
@@xiaodansheng1239 lol, yeah dude. If you there is no traffic and every delivery is 15 minutes away. This isn't fantasy land. For a few hours yes. But this is an average. It has to be like that in perpetuity non-stop. Edit: haha, even I didn't think it through. Every delivery needs to be 7.5 mins away from shop to delivery location to shop again. Drivers can't teleport back. Also, they can't have any waiting time at the shops.
The problem with chinese youth is actually the amount of college graduates vs job that are not from their studies. The market and competition is too big, so not everybody get what they want thru this harss competition. Trust me, there's actually a SHORTAGE of workers for more simple jobs and office jobs, but youngsters nowadays won't take any of those hardworking and time consuming jobs; a lot of them would rather keep studying for a master/phd or just keep waiting for another year to see if they get an oportunity while living with their parents. This documentary is framing this issue as if were exclusive to China, when in fact its a global phenomenom. Like literally, just change the name of the people and country and you would have another credible documentary done about "youth having a hard time to find an ideal job". Nobody wants to work as a delivery man/ at mcdonalds/ a 40+ hours boring office job that has nothing to do with their studies that took 20+ years of blood and sweat.
Not to mention the fact that virtually every college freshman in China ends up graduating; that is, it's impossible to fail providing you keep paying that tuition.
I heard that because they have too many educated young people vis a vis the number of jobs available requiring this level of education, the new generation trying to be accepted at a good university are given impossibly difficult questions on their college entrance exams.
New businesses are being started all the time in America, you can get a job easy and work as many hours as you want. Lots of new construction taking place.
Entrepreneurs in an economy experiencing a recession. Most humans live to be employees as there are not enough customers to buy all your products or services that you are selling or providing.
Say what you want, but I respect that Erchui guy - he found a way to works hard without completely destroying himself, he works a lot but not a crazy amount, he has a side hustle that actually provides some value, his bigger dreams have a chance to come true - even if he might be a tad too optimistic. Still, trying to come by without abusing others
It's gonna be interesting. The silent agreement was that for ever growing wealth, people let the CPCh do whatever they thought they should do. This agreement is over. Wealth is not growing anymore and with the demographic bomb impacting in no time.... the CPCh might need to brace for impact.
Youth unemployment is an issue in the West too. It's a feature of an increasingly educated & upwardly mobile workforce in industrializing countries. A simple Google search will show you China's figure for this are just about similar to the average of those in the West.
@@koiguidenishikigoi4972 I am American from Chinese descent. Americans like to stand out like nail. In China, the nail that stands out gets hammered down. I read westerners that teaches Chinese in China asks their students to draw anything they want, but students don't know what to draw. They expected the teacher to tell them what to draw something specific.
@@koiguidenishikigoi4972 strength is true justice. Justice is nothing if you are weak and can't maintain it. Stop thinking the real world is a fairy tail of being fair. Did you forget we are still animals and the strong prey on the weak?
Tens of millions of Chinese youths are studying in universities overseas, many of them wear designer clothing and drive expensive cars. Now you know why they aren't working. 😂
I wonder where they're getting the money to cover room and board then, because I know a fair few of them studying at TCU in Fort Worth, and they're having to decide between selling everything to move back, or get a job because their parents are broke. Ever wonder why all the Chinese tourists and billionaires suddenly disappeared?
@HumbertoSaabedra Overseas Chinese students don't work, they focus solely on getting education, the parents have to be wealthy to afford paying tuition and living expenses, some parents bought their kids BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Tesla, Ferrari,etc to drive to school. The same with the students in China, they don't work so they can focus on studying. Education in China is a lot tougher than that in U5A, students have to spend a lot of time studying outside classroom hours, this is why most young people in China don't work.
@@Anonymous------ Not all students are rich, but most parents are willing to spend money on their children. Especially where you can't take care of them. There are also many students who need to work to pay for their education
@miwakikxvx Tuition and living expenses total about US$100,000 per year for a mainland Chinese student studying in USA, only the wealthy parents in China can afford to send their kids to study in USA. Tuition is paid in advance, not after. Students have cash in their bank accounts to cover their living expenses, no one goes without money to study in USA when tuition is already paid.
@MissMixUndersood you must be out of touch.. you realize the gaming industry is bigger than the movie industry right? It's literally a common thing for many adults and young adults to game for multiple hours in many Asian countries, the Americas and many European countries
As a person who speaks 5language. I wonders what is the solutions to have good life for everyone? Every counties has it own Major problem, like USA. Have job but all money goes to bills and you get generation can’t afford house while China has this problem
Nobody has worked it out yet in the long term. Much of the "West" went through a golden age till the early 2000s, while socialism collapsed. Now much of the world is suffering from an aging population and capital misallocation. What is amusing is, that while China (and Russia) were talking about the "decline of the West" they now run into very similar issues from a slightly different angle. In the US debt and capital misallocation comes predominantly from the private sector, in China its the state (provinces and communities mostly, but still).
They never mentioned or talked about any of the state aid that people get. The farmer couple mentioned pension in the city, but there are many other state aid systems for people which no-one talks about and only want to pick on things that can make China look bad. The "poor farmers" were able to send their son to a prestigious university by paying 20K euros!. Lol I think 99% of Europe and America can't afford to do this without student loans & perpetual debt.
Work hard does not mean work smart. Cramming a lot of facts in brain does not mean they can apply those facts. Working the 996 does not mean they are productive.
In germany many big companies do layoffs due to a lack of demand for their products. This is focussed on automobile business and chemicals. Others are quite stable.
600 million earn less than 130 euros including kids and students, it’s not the figure for employed people or someone who live in villages or rural areas.
If America is worse, why do more people immigrate from China to the US than the other way around? 😂 Also, there are hundreds of documentaries on how America is failing-go look it up.
What are you mumbeling about? It shows Chinese cities as quite modern and clean and rural area as a rural area with quite nice and humble people. Shall they visit chairman's Mao museum or what?
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, China's politics and economy have deteriorated. As a totalitarian, privileged, and corrupt party, the political defects of the CCP have been fully exposed. The democratic, free, and equal reforms that the people have longed for have become increasingly slim under the rule of the CCP. The private economy has been severely damaged, but the CCP is still constantly strengthening the privileges and welfare levels of its own organization and personnel. It neither accepts the supervision of the people nor allows the people to make any criticisms and objections. It enjoys its rights and interests, but ignores the basic economic and welfare needs of the people. The people's confidence in the future has seriously declined.
A sign of how desperate and serious the economic situation in China is reflected of how many chinese bots are commenting this video and praising the "great" chinese economy lol
These propagandas are made for people like you. To provide you confirmation bias. And make you feel good about and forget about your inferiority as a white person.
There's a reason why European and American journalists are generally barred from reporting in China. The news reporting submitted for international diffusion and consumption is generally biased and often taken from a negative perspective without much in-depth research and actual "lengthy" fieldwork. I've been involved in the tourism business when China first opened up its doors to the world in the 1980's and I worked to promote China to the BENELUX region. I have first-hand experience in China's gradual rise from the 1980's to now. ARTE's reporting from the German and French side should be more balanced. China was applauded by the World Bank for its poverty alleviation drive lifting 800 million people out of the poverty status from 2012 to 2022. 800 million people is more than the population of both France and Germany put together. Remember that. Now, considering the global pandemic from December 2019 to January 2023 and when restriction to international travel and flight was lifted, we should all realise that companies all around the world, including China, France and Germany, that provide jobs to people were all hit hard during the 3-4 years pandemic devastation to businesses. How can you expect jobs to be easily available to the youth when there's still a recovery process -- 2023 was only last year? Do you think companies can recover that fast and provide necessary jobs within a one year period? Most companies have had to file for bankruptcy. Youth dissolution with the job market is a global problem -- your focus should not only be on China. Perhaps ARTE's reporters should look into their own backyard and neighbourhood of France and Germany and give us an example of how French and Germany youths are facing job and future security given the current condition of both European countries economies. China is, frankly, doing well, considering my regular trips to it to monitor the agriculture and fisheries industries as well as the culture creative industries, and will continue to do better. The tremendous task of managing the livelihood, food security and health of the Chinese people, all 1+ billion of them, will always be a responsibility of the Chinese government and they take it seriously.
@@HKim0072 There are conflicting datas. I had conducted intensive research on youth unemployment and youth suicide in ASEAN+3 (so China is included) and obtained several sources - mostly conflicting depending on the source's methodology. It's worth noting that educated youth generally have higher rates of unemployment, reflecting a mismatch with their aspirations and available jobs. Then we should also note those Chinese youth who deliberately resigned themselves to "tang ping" (lying flat), which funnily, is a common phenomenon that happens in a wide range of countries and regions.
I believe the new 2008 will come from China.Their gov debt is soaring, they invest into good looking things instead of diversification of the economy, and normal (slower) development. There is a gigantic bullet train network, but they don't invest into eg. agriculture like seen in the video a lot of stuff is still done by hand.
I have part time jobs and volunteer jobs. With UBI, I could financially justify working more volunteer jobs, like working in a stray cat animal shelter. Isn't "March of the Volunteers" the anthem? Tennessee is the volunteer state.
@ ..ok, I’ll re-read! Don’t remember but very possible I misunderstood something! Happens more & more the older I’m getting…lol! I believe… socialism without capitalism gives you communism … while … capitalism without socialism you have facism. Any thoughts?
What limited resources? Resources are by default unlimited as we can't destroy matter or energy. Inovation, recycling, new processes, new ways of doing things guarantee infinite growth for those who are not afraid of future. After all, things such as art, literature, non tangible things that people need and enjoy will never stop being produced. The best days for everybody on the planet are ahead of us, not behind. Fear of change and fear of future make people susceptable to totalitarian fascist regimes that offer safety and security. No such thing, grab the life by its horns.
You also don't see that half of Chinese people make less than 2400 USD per year, and they are NOT considered "extreme poor" by the Chinese government, while Americans are considered "extreme poor" if they makes 14000 USD a year or less. Millions of Chinese live in tiny rooms with "cardboard walls" because they cannot get a normal apartment, which are not too different as living in a tent if you ask me.
I see this like in South Korea and Japan, most young people feel entitled to a cushy job, but there's a lot of opportunities in more blue collar jobs and freelance work and starting business is always an option for the countryside instead of going to an expensive university. The younger South Koreans are realizing this now, the Japanese not sure yet... I hope the young Chinese realize it too.
@@KL0-b2w The most important thing is to start somewhere. Pride cannot feed you or pay your bills. This "Main Character" syndrome is really strong in the younger generation and it's creating a problem for society. They refuse jobs they think is beneath them. Everyone wants to be a cool salaryman with excellent pay right out of university. That's not real life. That's just fictional Asian drama series.
As I get older, good health is true wealth. People who are poor or uneducated die sooner from a bad diet, unhealthy life style, or get injured or sick from working in dangerous jobs. Blue collar jobs puts a lot of stress on your body. When you get sick, you become a burden in the family as well.
It'll just be talking about how turks, Arabs and blacks are suffering due to "discrimination" even though they are slowly taking over the demographics of the country
Talking about youth unemployment, have you checked into the statics of unemployed youth in the U.S.? Yes, China has a population of 1.4 billion people and yes, it too has a youth population looking for jobs. How about South Korea with its economy losing steam and not only youth but huge young adult population that are unemployed. And Japan’s youth have just stopped looking and have turned themselves into hibernating hermits!
Indeed..👏👏👏..I have seen large number of young Japanese and South Koreans fleeing the misery, depressing way of life (e.g. people sleeping in internet coffees..WTF ??) and no jobs at their home countries to seek any opportunity in countries like Canada, NZ or Australia to be better off with any "s---t job". And the financial situation on those commonwealth countries are not good at all with the housing crisis, homeless, etc....and increasing unemployment as well...
@ Thank you for concurring with my comments. So many SK youth if lucky to work PT has had to work multiple PT shit jobs just to survive day to day. On the other hand, in Japan the youth don’t even try….. they succumb to their situation and do absolutely NOTHING but surrender into hibernation existence.
Maybe because the documentary is on Chinese youth? Not other countries? If you want to watch those ones just search and you can find them. Funny…. Lets talk about sweden and the entire world and so on and on. This is a 25 minute video my goodness….
You seem to be confused about how information works. Yeah, you can also find information about Korea, and other places. But this is a documentary about a specific thing in China.... not about Korea. If I want to watch a documentary about Korea I will watch a documentary about Korea. You see how that works - like if I watch a video about diabetes, I don't say, yeah, what about osteoporosis....
@@ccs8575 I’m just stating an opinion as this video gives a one dimensional generalization of Chinese unemployed youth. As this is an open forum, it is free to express opinions from anyone whether you agree with it or not!
Youths in China were born under one-child policy, meaning that each family has only one child, the parents treaure their only child, providing the best including quality education to them. Today China bas the highest number of youths in higher education than in its entire 5000 years history, also families are wealthiest ever, no parents let their only child work for cheap wage when their only child is getting education. Today's China is not poor any more, most families own their own homes without any mortgage, there's no need fo wealthyr kids to work to earn money. Wealthy parents want their only child stay focused on education not cheap wage jobs.
@miwakikxvx False, most people abided by the one-child policy because there was heavy financial penalty for violation of the policy, and also the extra child couldn't get official citizen ID, that means the extra child couldn't get education, medical care, driver license, job, etc.
Do You know how to use the search function in UA-cam? Try it. Type in “arte Marseilles” there’s several results about social problems in Marseilles and Berlin. Is nobody allowed to criticize china?
good documentary. but as such a big station: can you get the city names right? it is not so hard to pronounce correctly. I can help you or just use google.
The young guy trying to convince his hard working and obviously quite poor parents to invest in a restaurant and basically playing all their hopes on this to break the cycle with a chance of succeeding below 10% is quite a signal of how desperate the situation must be
West media must try to amplify how bad and poor China is, however, China has no homeless, and no people living in subways like the US. How can you say that the boy's family is poor, yet they are great farmers and live in their own house! If you want for poor people, go to the largest democracy on earth, India!
What? He's young and wants to earn a lot of money but he can't? That's a worldwide problem, not a Chinese one. He also rents a quite big flat, being unemployed. I don't trust so much this video.
China's economy is expected to grow at least 5% in 2024. How about USA & Europe? 2% or less. Youth unemployment? Tell me which country doesn't have youth employment? ...for China their national savings is very high , over 30%. In USA and Europe it is less than 10%. For parents who have 30% savings, they can afford for their only kid to be unemployed for a while, not to mention most of these youth are still in college or university. They are not going to starve to death or become homeless, sleeping on the streets or parks like what we see in the USA and Europe.
3:41 The problem in china is dire indeed, but the translation should follow its meaning not just follow your own interpretation. The young man been interviewed said :”No job that meets my standard(decent and earns good money in his own perspective).” Not “but I haven’t found a job yet”. Which is quite quite different.
The letter "Q" in Pinyin should be read with a "ch" sound like for "chair", NOT chemistry. Hence, Tianqin - should be pronounced Tian-Chin, ditto Qianqian as Chian-chian. Goes to show how ill-informed & ignorant western journalists are of China when they couldn't even get such basics right about China. Yet they want their readers/viewers to believe in the credibility of their reports. lol 😂😂😂
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Youth unemployment is an issue across the world. What's the situation like in your country? 🌎
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Interesting, but please avoid the background music playing all the time while telling the story… It was mostly sad underlining, of course, the sad reality of these young people. But it’s also influential. I’d like to watch a documentary without being influenced by its music.
In the post three years, each year China has 10 million college grads, how many of them find jobs? Only very small percentage get jobs, millions of college grads deliver foods. Yes , Youth unemployment is everywhere. But, China has highest youth unemployment in the world!
4% in my country
Corruption is a SILENT KILLER
Thank you for this video. I just told a bunch of Chinese that Skyscrapers do not impress me in China because it is only a facade. Skyscrapers doesn't mean anything in any Country.
Studying journalism in China is like studying naval strategy in Mongolia.
😂
This is actually a world wide situation, its not endemic to China. A family member in the Caribbean is struggling with finding a job and they are a university graduate in civil engineering.
There’s always work, they’re being too picky, tell them to be a police officer
If the USA had a good immigration policy I think an aspiring civil engineer could get a job there.
@@steved8053 And they are a super genius at Math.
In America right now you can get any job you want and work as many hours as you want, everyone is hiring and new businesses are being started all the time. New buildings and houses are being built, you can get a construction job easy as pie.
I agree it's the same way in Africa also, it's world wide you have wars going on also.
I come from Vietnam. Currently my job is as a translator and I earn about $1,500 per month. I have been working for the company for nearly 6 years and have saved about $50,000. My plan is that when I turn 40, I will quit my job at the company and return to my hometown to work in the fields. I like living in the countryside and like farming. I think if it's too difficult to make money in the city, young people can return to their hometown to work in the fields.
I named my beloved rescue cat Jon snow. I love the natural world, too. Best of everything to you when you go home.
Vietnam countryside is beautiful.
Sounds like you're a very disciplined saver...
Good luck from Australia, many people here share the same plan.
buy some bitcoin nobody can take that away from you
I find it fascinating that under Chinese socialism there are no state pensions for people outside main cities. In my home country Croatia (which had socialism during Yugoslavia) we still have state pensions for every worker. It is often not much, but even people who never worked get some minimal amount each month after they turn 65. That is definetly not enough to cover all daily expenses, but many people rely on family/relatives and some have a little side-hustle.
My point being - what kind of socialism is that when you don't provide social benefits for your people? That's socialism in name only!
New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS)
It's socialism with Chinese characteristics. Like German National socialism was communism with fascist characteristics, but still 'socialism'. These isms are whatever governments want them to be. It's basically capitalism/ corporatism but they have to keep calling it communism until the older generation die off then. Only then will they be honest about it.
They are oligarchs. They always have been. Communism and Socialism are code for keeping the wealthy wealthy, like Free Market is code for making the rich richer.
China isn't socialism. It's feudalism with capitalistic economy. Ppl jokingly call it red CCP officials red capitalists.
可怜虫，中国农村60岁以后就有了。而你们是65岁。
It’s the sad reality of today. The situation is the same in the so called other fast growing economies from Brazil to India (gdp growth without jobs).
BRICS is going to fail. just watch.
It is not the case in India. India’s economic foundations are way stronger than china’s china is greedy.
It's the middle income trap. Nearly impossible to escape it for large populations. And, especially if your economy is based on manufacturing exports.
Korea, Taiwan and Singapore managed to move past it. Some of the Gulf states, but that's more oil driven.
I have some amateur non-market driven ideas, but I'm no economist.
I’d love to hear it, I’m an economist.
Except in Brazil and India the people didn't sell their freedoms for promised prosperity-they can still worship how they want, say what they want, form any organization they want, create the art they want, write what they want, read on the internet what they want, publish what they want, and most importantly, defend themselves before an independent judiciary.
Culturally, Chinese are hard workers. In China or Chinatown in America, They don’t make much at all but long hours in Chinatown. My late mother was one. She worked hard so I could have a better life in America.
Everyone country has back-breaking hard work, and workers that fill these positions.
The term "work hard" is an emotional term which gets in the way of the logical thinking needed for success. It is much easier to achieve things by thinking logically than it is emotionally. Throwing around the term "hard work" promotes emotional thinking and thus is an impediment to success in life.
@@koolxxxyear True.
The ones who built Chinatowns all over the world are Teochews and Hokkiens and not the "Mainlanders".
And most of them are of mixed ethnicities such as Viet-Chinese, Cambodian-Chinese, Laos
Welcome!
I appreciate the Meituan and Eleme delivery people. They work hard and most of them are usually quite friendly.
They probably hate their lives.
@ Hard to say. Although if it’s the case and they are being nice and polite nonetheless that says quite a lot in itself.
@@jiff2323 Everyone in China is enslaved by the CCP because they are aggressively coerced into 996 jobs and are paid very little for it. The CCP enslaves all of its citizens not just the Uhygurs.
rot and lie flat ... very sad when Youth unemployment reaches 25%. Brave for these 3 out of total of 300 that they asked for an interview, to come out and speak. For sure, able to speak out is a therapy on its own, but if you are not allowed to, that's even more painful.
25% unemployment ?
How do you come up with this number?
This is very old video , things are much worse now !!!1
Despite how dire this documentary makes the situation out to be in China, everyone still has a roof over his head, food on the table and family around him. Now compare that to America.
The USA? Which has a GDP per capita MUCH higher than China? Which currently has the strongest economy in the world to the point that China can’t even touch it? That USA? 😂😂
@@danix4883then why are there so many homeless people living on the streets of America?If you were in China now ,you will find it so hard to spot any homeless people
@@YangZhang-ww6dv Drugs and depravity. You will find that 95% of the homeless in the US have drug issues.
@@YangZhang-ww6dv Homeless people are kept out of the view of the public. There is massive oppression and social control in China.
You mean where I make 200k ? Yeah I’d take USA rn
Everybody everywhere is struggling.
nice hope but nope
Nope I’m not strugggling at all 😂
@@harryzou930ur poor though
Depends
No one in my family in Canada struggle. We had 6 figure income for each earning member of our familjes and 3 house well apartment. Sure price is bit high but we can okay and many of my friends are all doing well.
It's happening everywhere not just China
Us millenials and gen z all over the world are subjected to these hard economies in our countries, yet governments have the audacity to be alarmed that we don't get married or have children like it used to be. It seems like there's a class crisis and cost of living crisis globally.
Population reduction. The governments know exactly what they are doing. They only pretend to care.
You are correct. The mega wealthy who do everything possible not to pay back into the system which allowed them to amass such obscene amounts of money are the cause.
It’s not like economic downturns are new. Economic boons and busts have always been around, and it’s never been easy to be a young adult.
I graduated college in the 90s, at the height of the corporate downsizing craze, where most every company was laying off workers to become “leaner and more profitable.” Our college job fair was almost cancelled, as only the military recruiters came. People would post their many job rejection letters outside their dorm room door. And all the unemployed grads made grad schools much harder to get into. But people weathered it various ways and were doing fine in a few years.
And the cost of living question is harder as entry level jobs NEVER paid for the lifestyle we consider middle class today.
In my parents childhood, many who considered themselves “middle class” had no indoor bathroom, just an outhouse out back. Most people owned 3-4 changes of clothes, max, and their entertainment budget was “one radio or TV.” They had a house, but a 1500 ft house for a family was considered plenty big. Things like each kid getting their own room, college, health insurance, air conditioning, washer/dryers, beach vacations, plane tickets and much more were for the WEALTHY only.
Now we consider all those things middle class necessities, plus much more, and that just costs more.
@@mlisaj1111ur out of touch. it is far worse for younger people. im 52 and see how much worse ir is for young people
My favorite comedic moment in the state run government:
Back in 2017, the government crackdowned on HNA Group because their debt levels were getting too high: on the books for $100B (a wild ownership structure though). In 2018, they crackdowned on Anbang Insurance which had assets listed at $300B (who knows) and debt levels likely the same.
But, at the same time they let Evergrande and Country Garden keep accumulating more debt until they got to the same $200-300B range. And, we all know how that worked out.
The fact that we get free videos on UA-cam by ARTE is truly a gift; keeping education and knowledge alive. 👏🙏🏾🤷
May I also remind you of the fact that our Native American population in our motherland, the Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while the European population in their motherland, the Continent of Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering TWO BILLION! A shockingly sad truth. 🙁
In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return to rightful owners Native American people.
Notorious global cardinal crimes the Christian West has committed, and benefited a great deal, such as centuries-long global Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? 😔
We're glad you enjoy them!
My jaw dropped as I read Native American population in their motherland, the Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while the European population in their motherland, the Continent of Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering TWO BILLION. It is a shockingly sad truth. 😔
For centuries, in vast bountiful resourceful North & South America, the motherland of Native American people, where the vast majority of the population, hundreds of millions of Europeans were from all over and every corner of Northern & Southern Europe brought in over to occupy the Native American lands.
Similarly, here in the Asia-Pacific region, the vast majority of the population in vast bountiful resourceful Australia & New Zealand, tens of millions of Europeans were from all over Europe brought in over to the Asia-Pacific, the motherland of Native Asian-Pacific people.🤷
For hard truths, pls read the informative insightful, multi-pages comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism": ua-cam.com/video/z9SMN59vsGY/v-deo.htmlsi=QZ4aX9jmUdrbRoYL , (which by the way, got pushed down below 100 other comments lately).
For centuries, in vast bountiful resourceful North & South America, the motherland of Native American people, where the vast majority of the population, hundreds of millions of Europeans were from all over and every corner of Northern & Southern Europe brought in over to occupy the Native American lands.
Similarly, here in the Asia-Pacific region, the vast majority of the population in vast bountiful resourceful Australia & New Zealand, tens of millions of Europeans were from all over Europe brought in over to the Asia-Pacific, the motherland of Native Asian-Pacific people.🤷
Truth is the light. Knowledge is power.. For hard truths, pls read the informative insightful, multi-pages comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle", on UA-cam (which by the way, got pushed down below 100 other comments lately).
@@gustywind-de7xb What happened to Native American people in their own motherland, wiping them out almost entirely after tens of thousands of years of profound culture.. It's really sad and disgusting how so many Native people of the Americas were wiped out by genocide and Colonization.
Native American people have already lost their land, their population and most of all their future..The tragedy of Native Americans is the saddest thing ever happened in the history of mankind, and the most neglected one as well.
'Slavery, Genocide, Colonialism & Colonization' are all evil things done and benefited by evildoers. Speaking of Native American people who have not occupied an inch of European land, or slaughtered a single European in Europe; while European Colonizers have occupied both North & South America lands and terminated 99.9% of Natives population.. A shockingly sad truth.
By the way, many thanks for the very informative multi-page comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism": ua-cam.com/video/z9SMN59vsGY/v-deo.htmlsi=QZ4aX9jmUdrbRoYL .
Either way, China did a great job pulling people out of abject poverty, and not because of CCP but in spite of CCP.
Nonsense. The Chinese people were as hard working and creative under Mao. The CCP controlled society then as it does now. China's "success" and progress is precisely because they changed tack, the rest of the world played ball and it reaped the "benefits".
China is CCP.
Unemployed but having like 3000 dollars worth of iProducts...poor thing
Ignorant. You're speaking as if poor people can't have nice things. You didn't even have a clue how he bought that. It could be a gift, a refurbished phone, a second hand phone, or something that he's saved up for a long time.
@ Than fucking sell it...or shut the fuck up...also you dont need 5000 dollar equipment to be another idiot tiktokker...
@ Also says she has no savings left...then its wise to spend it on tech...such an idiot like you who are protecting it...guess you also have good car and phone then cry for being poor?
She's on job hunting, living on her savings. She's not poor. Not same thing, mate
Ditto
-100 Social credit for these three young people!
Still people belive in this? Because social credit system is not working as you think and how it has been showed few years ago in media. Really.
the fact that you and 40 who liked your comment actually still believes social credits exist lmao. Youve got free press in the West and still its plagued with stupidity.
that is just western propaganda, no such thing exist
Social Credit is a Bull Poop lie. That doesn't exist there, that will come the USA before China.
You just know the three people who are willing to speak on camera about this are absolutely brooding underneath.
I'm appreciative of these individual stories because we often see a focus on industrial and economic moves. These help keep us grounded about what those spreadsheets really mean at the end of the day.
That dude just at 2:30 just emptied the whole detergent bottle.
Lol, I was thinking the same thing
@@idontknow1919 I thought I was tripping. There's a few other things that make me think these guys are actors and the story is mostly made up.
Or it could be he doesn't know how to wash clothes. Just because you've been to college you might nor be too good at practical things.
I think he just added some water to the leftover of the detergent, otherwise it wouldn't be that fluid.
@@hannanexplore1951 I thought so too. The color was so light
There's exactly zero chance that Erchui currently earns $1500 EUR (~11,340rmb) per month right now at just 8 hrs/day. Maybe 5 years ago, but not today. He'd need to consistently deliver 5-10 orders per hour minimum and clear 5-10rmb per order (which I seriously doubt). It's an over-saturated occupation just like ride hailing. Too many riders competing for too few orders. Tons of them lounging around waiting for an order. Generally speaking, the tips suck unless they're delivering to foreigners who actually care. I like to give 20-25% to riders/drivers/maids etc because a) 20-25% in usd isn't exactly a windfall, and b) many of them deserve it. I'd be surprised if he's making half of what he claims. I wonder if he was simply saving face for the interview.
Despite all the problems mentioned, streets are clean, food is cheap, no gun violence, no homeless, no MAGA, no WOKE, no religious extremism either, there are far worse places in this world.
Exactly 👍🏿
I think most people in China would rather live in the USA.
China - no free speech, no democracy, no religious freedom, CCP Eiltes living rich lives while the masses are told to endure hardship, cheap GMO plastic food : there are worse places, but China is rough
There’s plenty of homelessness in China.
@@fsmith3692most of the homeless in China are migrants who have move to the city and have not found a place to live
I was watching a documentary some westerner who had come back to the poorest village in China 1 year later
As he walks in on a Poverty Alleviation Senior Social worker berating 5 or 6
Poverty Alleviation social workers because a deadline was fast approaching and they had a quotas to meet getting people in the village above a poverty line or they all including this Senior Social worker would get demoted/fired
Where they for example had to make sure the villagers were signed up for some State healthcare plan where the State paid 95% of the bills
Then this guys follows one social worker as he shows him the newly paved roads and new houses and the donated furnishings in a home
Even with all that you could get a sense of fear and worry in this guy demeanour.
As we find out he was some Government banking official who was demoted to this job
And the only way you move back up is to meet your deadlines and quotas
Is this a better system than we have in the west?
Depends on if our Government is willing to build roads and houses for people with little expected return. And put peoples jobs on the line to get those results
Type into a UA-cam Search
“Revisiting China's poorest village”
If you're doing a report on China with interviews of Chinese people
wouldn't it be proper, professional and respectful to learn Chinese names correctly?
The Chinese don’t respect anybody who isn’t Chinese. Why must we respect them??
I lived in China for the last 17 years and have traveled to India before. These 2 most populous countries set the worse example for socialism and democratic system.
I helped my father grow corn and soybean in the 1970s. I learned how to hunt and fish and gut and prep the kill. Growing up in Mississippi this was normal.
1500 euros per month for delivery job is more than decent, no ??
trust me, to get that kind of salary you'll need to work crazy hours
It's okay It's nothing spectacular but you have to work crazy amount of hours usually 10 plus in I've even heard 16 hours a day
Impossible math.
1500 euros / 30 days = 50 euro per day.
50 euro / 16 hours = 3.5 euro per hour
Drivers earn closer to
@@HKim0072 thats very possible if you plan your deliveries well
@@xiaodansheng1239 lol, yeah dude. If you there is no traffic and every delivery is 15 minutes away.
This isn't fantasy land. For a few hours yes. But this is an average. It has to be like that in perpetuity non-stop.
Edit: haha, even I didn't think it through. Every delivery needs to be 7.5 mins away from shop to delivery location to shop again. Drivers can't teleport back. Also, they can't have any waiting time at the shops.
The problem with chinese youth is actually the amount of college graduates vs job that are not from their studies. The market and competition is too big, so not everybody get what they want thru this harss competition.
Trust me, there's actually a SHORTAGE of workers for more simple jobs and office jobs, but youngsters nowadays won't take any of those hardworking and time consuming jobs; a lot of them would rather keep studying for a master/phd or just keep waiting for another year to see if they get an oportunity while living with their parents.
This documentary is framing this issue as if were exclusive to China, when in fact its a global phenomenom. Like literally, just change the name of the people and country and you would have another credible documentary done about "youth having a hard time to find an ideal job".
Nobody wants to work as a delivery man/ at mcdonalds/ a 40+ hours boring office job that has nothing to do with their studies that took 20+ years of blood and sweat.
Not to mention the fact that virtually every college freshman in China ends up graduating; that is, it's impossible to fail providing you keep paying that tuition.
Same problem in Spain. Too many "overqualified" people.
I heard that because they have too many educated young people vis a vis the number of jobs available requiring this level of education, the new generation trying to be accepted at a good university are given impossibly difficult questions on their college entrance exams.
New businesses are being started all the time in America, you can get a job easy and work as many hours as you want. Lots of new construction taking place.
Yes but in China you are trading freedom for state intervention. No state intervention and no freedom isn't a good deal.
Chinese youth no more need unemployment
But entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs in an economy experiencing a recession. Most humans live to be employees as there are not enough customers to buy all your products or services that you are selling or providing.
how many businesses can u have if nobody has money to buy stuff? u need regular jobs
Say what you want, but I respect that Erchui guy - he found a way to works hard without completely destroying himself, he works a lot but not a crazy amount, he has a side hustle that actually provides some value, his bigger dreams have a chance to come true - even if he might be a tad too optimistic. Still, trying to come by without abusing others
Unemployment is not their biggest problem in this surveillance state...😢
By this logic America and Europe should be equally as worried.
@@tobiisiba1641 I don't know about the USA but in the EU unemployment is at a historical low point .
@@tobiisiba1641 so why are Chinese desperate to get out to the USA, Europe, Australia and NZ, even some entering Cambodia illegally looking for work
watching people out of job doing nothing is a job. 😆
Funny, since China actually is actually much better than any city in EU or US. Survelliance? As if US. don 't already have it.
Reportage avec qualite. Merci.
Have mercy, do not drag your parents into your "dream" restaurant or whatever, I'm glad his parents didn't agree to that.
It's gonna be interesting. The silent agreement was that for ever growing wealth, people let the CPCh do whatever they thought they should do.
This agreement is over. Wealth is not growing anymore and with the demographic bomb impacting in no time.... the CPCh might need to brace for impact.
Youth unemployment is an issue in the West too. It's a feature of an increasingly educated & upwardly mobile workforce in industrializing countries. A simple Google search will show you China's figure for this are just about similar to the average of those in the West.
sure.. and china is still publishing their stats? nope. nice try diddy
@@Okahui I agree, China stopped publishing their stats and if they do, they have been window dressed.
@@Okahui in US, our government lie how good the economy is😁
@@1HeatWalk Well that's a lie. 1. you're not American and 2. the gov can't lie about that
@@Patrick-sl8pc they just gaslight us. they said economy is at all time high yet at the same time, nobody can afford shit
The lady said Chinese like to work hard. That's true but that's very different from work in vain when you have a horrible policy and ideology
Can you describe western ideology for me please. If not for colonial theft and plunder can you tell me if the west would be where it is today.
台湾人和大陆人一样勤劳能干，一起携手好好学英语。
@@koiguidenishikigoi4972 I am American from Chinese descent. Americans like to stand out like nail. In China, the nail that stands out gets hammered down.
I read westerners that teaches Chinese in China asks their students to draw anything they want, but students don't know what to draw. They expected the teacher to tell them what to draw something specific.
@@koiguidenishikigoi4972 strength is true justice. Justice is nothing if you are weak and can't maintain it. Stop thinking the real world is a fairy tail of being fair. Did you forget we are still animals and the strong prey on the weak?
@@1HeatWalk wise words for everyone to remember 👍👍
Tens of millions of Chinese youths are studying in universities overseas, many of them wear designer clothing and drive expensive cars. Now you know why they aren't working. 😂
I wonder where they're getting the money to cover room and board then, because I know a fair few of them studying at TCU in Fort Worth, and they're having to decide between selling everything to move back, or get a job because their parents are broke. Ever wonder why all the Chinese tourists and billionaires suddenly disappeared?
Ten million? Don't talk like an idiot, okay?
@HumbertoSaabedra
Overseas Chinese students don't work, they focus solely on getting education, the parents have to be wealthy to afford paying tuition and living expenses, some parents bought their kids BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Tesla, Ferrari,etc to drive to school. The same with the students in China, they don't work so they can focus on studying. Education in China is a lot tougher than that in U5A, students have to spend a lot of time studying outside classroom hours, this is why most young people in China don't work.
@@Anonymous------ Not all students are rich, but most parents are willing to spend money on their children. Especially where you can't take care of them. There are also many students who need to work to pay for their education
@miwakikxvx
Tuition and living expenses total about US$100,000 per year for a mainland Chinese student studying in USA, only the wealthy parents in China can afford to send their kids to study in USA. Tuition is paid in advance, not after. Students have cash in their bank accounts to cover their living expenses, no one goes without money to study in USA when tuition is already paid.
Unemployment at 28% and they can't play video games for longer than 4hrs?! SERIOUSLY WTF 😮
Who plays video games over 4 hours?
@MissMixUndersood you must be out of touch.. you realize the gaming industry is bigger than the movie industry right? It's literally a common thing for many adults and young adults to game for multiple hours in many Asian countries, the Americas and many European countries
That's China...😂😂😂😂😂
Gaming is for losers like you!
You have no contribution to the society!😂😂😂@@iAintNeverPullinOut
@@MissMixUndersood I do. lol. many people do.
Correction: there is No longer "middle class" in China!! They have been wiped out totally due to housing debt!!
This guy's Chinese pronunciation of place names is truly abysmal. Can you at least try and get the sounds right?
A flaw of Confucianism is putting elderly people in charge of the family. The strongest should lead.
Only 3 out of 300 would share😮 How sad.😔
that's because the remaining 297(99%) don't want to help the West promote their anti-China propaganda & disinformation.🙄
@@tweedy4sg 0 logic in this comment. why would china hide their stat if its going well?
Probably the same in America. Who wants a camera to follow them around when they are having a hard time?
They are paid for their time. You think anyone in their right mind would want cameras to follow them everywhere?
Because they are afraid of the government
Comment section has come to attention of CCP - bots deploy!
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Nonsense.
As a person who speaks 5language. I wonders what is the solutions to have good life for everyone? Every counties has it own Major problem, like USA. Have job but all money goes to bills and you get generation can’t afford house while China has this problem
Nobody has worked it out yet in the long term. Much of the "West" went through a golden age till the early 2000s, while socialism collapsed. Now much of the world is suffering from an aging population and capital misallocation. What is amusing is, that while China (and Russia) were talking about the "decline of the West" they now run into very similar issues from a slightly different angle. In the US debt and capital misallocation comes predominantly from the private sector, in China its the state (provinces and communities mostly, but still).
Thank you for this neutral documentary.
And you believe whatever this "propaganda" videos teach you to believe. Such a pity
They never mentioned or talked about any of the state aid that people get. The farmer couple mentioned pension in the city, but there are many other state aid systems for people which no-one talks about and only want to pick on things that can make China look bad. The "poor farmers" were able to send their son to a prestigious university by paying 20K euros!. Lol I think 99% of Europe and America can't afford to do this without student loans & perpetual debt.
@@westernHypocricylmao loser, how can you access UA-cam if you live in china? I got you IP and I can easily report you to your govt! 😂🎉
Under socialism, you are guaranteed a job. This is capitalism
People need jobs so their lives are not so boring.
@@jiaweike3518Those people are naturally boring.
100% correct. China is a capitalist country.
China is not socialist country. It is a state capitalism. I have no doubts, people work hard there.
Work hard does not mean work smart. Cramming a lot of facts in brain does not mean they can apply those facts. Working the 996 does not mean they are productive.
For migrant workers, they could live in rail cars refitted as homes. I have stayed in shipping container apartments. It was pleasant.
The editing, video angles and voice over is deliberately grim. It make for a specific purpose.
as usual, then they will claim some money from state department
@@jye7027 you have commie brain worms. ARTE is a French/German TV channel. Get your facts straight.
In germany many big companies do layoffs due to a lack of demand for their products. This is focussed on automobile business and chemicals. Others are quite stable.
Open a restaurant. Go back to university. What a big disappointment he is for his poor parents. They already spent 20K
This is not just a china problem.
ARTE! Do you use a dark filter?
600 million earn less than 130 euros including kids and students, it’s not the figure for employed people or someone who live in villages or rural areas.
It is a great documentary, thanks for sharing
Sources? Statistics don't say this.
@@jowang6883 It is normally comes from household income, but yes, it involves everyone and calculated per capita.
Pronunciation of Qianqian made my head hurt lol
Amarica is worse, you should do a documentary about that too
America… 😊
If America is worse, why do more people immigrate from China to the US than the other way around? 😂 Also, there are hundreds of documentaries on how America is failing-go look it up.
Can you please elaborate on how are things in America (the US) worse than in China?
Worse? Sorry US stocks and bitcoin just hit all time high and unemployment rate all time low. 🎉
America is infinitely better than China lol
Well,here in Africa wondering about how fair suffering can be to some people out there.
I lived in country side for a few months during 2000. It doesn’t seem to change much. People in rural areas are still poor.
there should be interviews on people with jobs for balanced reporting. Whether they get paid on time, or asked to take pay cuts etc.
Can the filter be darker? Or adding a little more footage of rural poverty would be even better
What are you mumbeling about? It shows Chinese cities as quite modern and clean and rural area as a rural area with quite nice and humble people. Shall they visit chairman's Mao museum or what?
@@tomfu9909 theres clearly a dark filter the same way they use yellow filters for mexico and middle east documentaries.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, China's politics and economy have deteriorated. As a totalitarian, privileged, and corrupt party, the political defects of the CCP have been fully exposed. The democratic, free, and equal reforms that the people have longed for have become increasingly slim under the rule of the CCP. The private economy has been severely damaged, but the CCP is still constantly strengthening the privileges and welfare levels of its own organization and personnel. It neither accepts the supervision of the people nor allows the people to make any criticisms and objections. It enjoys its rights and interests, but ignores the basic economic and welfare needs of the people. The people's confidence in the future has seriously declined.
Education does not bring you top positions after graduation 🎓
12 million graduates in China every year.
@@RobertCollins-fq5tw 12 million more unemployed young people
That will be down to 9M in the near future as a best case since that’s the number of births per year now and falling
@@croissants1280 how about old man? refuse to retire?
A sign of how desperate and serious the economic situation in China is reflected of how many chinese bots are commenting this video and praising the "great" chinese economy lol
These propagandas are made for people like you. To provide you confirmation bias. And make you feel good about and forget about your inferiority as a white person.
Nothing wrong to work in the field. Farming is big business too, you know. People needs food everyday.
There's a reason why European and American journalists are generally barred from reporting in China. The news reporting submitted for international diffusion and consumption is generally biased and often taken from a negative perspective without much in-depth research and actual "lengthy" fieldwork. I've been involved in the tourism business when China first opened up its doors to the world in the 1980's and I worked to promote China to the BENELUX region. I have first-hand experience in China's gradual rise from the 1980's to now. ARTE's reporting from the German and French side should be more balanced. China was applauded by the World Bank for its poverty alleviation drive lifting 800 million people out of the poverty status from 2012 to 2022. 800 million people is more than the population of both France and Germany put together. Remember that. Now, considering the global pandemic from December 2019 to January 2023 and when restriction to international travel and flight was lifted, we should all realise that companies all around the world, including China, France and Germany, that provide jobs to people were all hit hard during the 3-4 years pandemic devastation to businesses. How can you expect jobs to be easily available to the youth when there's still a recovery process -- 2023 was only last year? Do you think companies can recover that fast and provide necessary jobs within a one year period? Most companies have had to file for bankruptcy. Youth dissolution with the job market is a global problem -- your focus should not only be on China. Perhaps ARTE's reporters should look into their own backyard and neighbourhood of France and Germany and give us an example of how French and Germany youths are facing job and future security given the current condition of both European countries economies. China is, frankly, doing well, considering my regular trips to it to monitor the agriculture and fisheries industries as well as the culture creative industries, and will continue to do better. The tremendous task of managing the livelihood, food security and health of the Chinese people, all 1+ billion of them, will always be a responsibility of the Chinese government and they take it seriously.
Journalism in China is not independent. It must report what the regime wants it to report. It has very little to. do with reality and objectiveness...
What data is incorrect?
Hush wumao
@@HKim0072 There are conflicting datas. I had conducted intensive research on youth unemployment and youth suicide in ASEAN+3 (so China is included) and obtained several sources - mostly conflicting depending on the source's methodology. It's worth noting that educated youth generally have higher rates of unemployment, reflecting a mismatch with their aspirations and available jobs. Then we should also note those Chinese youth who deliberately resigned themselves to "tang ping" (lying flat), which funnily, is a common phenomenon that happens in a wide range of countries and regions.
Western media is cancer
Still safer & nicer than Detroit & SF
I believe the new 2008 will come from China.Their gov debt is soaring, they invest into good looking things instead of diversification of the economy, and normal (slower) development. There is a gigantic bullet train network, but they don't invest into eg. agriculture like seen in the video a lot of stuff is still done by hand.
Here in the USA, part time jobs, UBI nonprofit jobs, and communal/family housing may be ideas that President Xi should consider. ❤❤❤❤ Love China ❤❤❤❤
Tianqing still.has things to be thankful for. Perhaps he should move in with family or friends. ❤
I have part time jobs and volunteer jobs. With UBI, I could financially justify working more volunteer jobs, like working in a stray cat animal shelter. Isn't "March of the Volunteers" the anthem? Tennessee is the volunteer state.
I think the whole world is slowing down with less jobs. Capitalism, the idea of always growing in a world with limited resources, is not sustainable.
lol….deepstater…we are in no way anywhere near any limit of the most essential resources. Free energy has been damn near proven and well documented
We see you Bill Gates.. kiss my arse before I eat bugs own nothing and be happy you wierdo😊s
@@VA2UP2DOWN he's talking about Capitalism, look it up.
@ ..ok, I’ll re-read! Don’t remember but very possible I misunderstood something! Happens more & more the older I’m getting…lol!
I believe… socialism without capitalism gives you communism … while … capitalism without socialism you have facism. Any thoughts?
What limited resources? Resources are by default unlimited as we can't destroy matter or energy. Inovation, recycling, new processes, new ways of doing things guarantee infinite growth for those who are not afraid of future. After all, things such as art, literature, non tangible things that people need and enjoy will never stop being produced. The best days for everybody on the planet are ahead of us, not behind. Fear of change and fear of future make people susceptable to totalitarian fascist regimes that offer safety and security. No such thing, grab the life by its horns.
At least in China people have shelter and food, in the United States they don't even have a health system! 🔥❤
I can’t see homeless tents ⛺️ everywhere. Must be going better than the USA.
You also don't see that half of Chinese people make less than 2400 USD per year, and they are NOT considered "extreme poor" by the Chinese government, while Americans are considered "extreme poor" if they makes 14000 USD a year or less. Millions of Chinese live in tiny rooms with "cardboard walls" because they cannot get a normal apartment, which are not too different as living in a tent if you ask me.
CCP does not allow showing poverty .
18:08 - The city in the video is Milan, Italy!
Are you sure 600million earn less than 130euros, I’m Chinese, all of my family live in China
From remarks by the former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at an 2020 press conference, which were widely published by the Chinese and international press.
I don't see how the latter disproves the former.
@@lesterchester8097 China's economy grew by like 20% since 2020 so not sure if this is relevant anymore, it's been 5 years already
咋啦，挣的少花点少。欧洲的日子也没见的有多好
You would see thing worse if you go to some poor provinces. Seeing is believing that shocked me when taking trips there.
I see this like in South Korea and Japan, most young people feel entitled to a cushy job, but there's a lot of opportunities in more blue collar jobs and freelance work and starting business is always an option for the countryside instead of going to an expensive university. The younger South Koreans are realizing this now, the Japanese not sure yet... I hope the young Chinese realize it too.
but when those individuals are highly educated and capable they should get a good job, now you have engineers running food stalls
@@KL0-b2w The most important thing is to start somewhere. Pride cannot feed you or pay your bills.
This "Main Character" syndrome is really strong in the younger generation and it's creating a problem for society.
They refuse jobs they think is beneath them. Everyone wants to be a cool salaryman with excellent pay right out of university.
That's not real life. That's just fictional Asian drama series.
As I get older, good health is true wealth. People who are poor or uneducated die sooner from a bad diet, unhealthy life style, or get injured or sick from working in dangerous jobs. Blue collar jobs puts a lot of stress on your body. When you get sick, you become a burden in the family as well.
@ that is a matter of personal responsibility . Sitting in a desk all day is also not healthy.
@@UeharaKeitaro上原恵太郎 poor people have no choice in that , they are forced into poor health from overwork and no opportunity
Too much automation has created this situation....and it's only going to get worse
Let's wait for arte's documentary on Germany, if there ever will be one.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 lol
I bet this problem is a lot worse in Germany 😂😂😂
Compare to china, germany is already dead, its done and eu is done, they done it to themselves.
It'll just be talking about how turks, Arabs and blacks are suffering due to "discrimination" even though they are slowly taking over the demographics of the country
They already did plenty.
the growth of china's economy is staggering .. you cannot ask more from a country then that.. it's not a chinese problem at all.. it is ours
Talking about youth unemployment, have you checked into the statics of unemployed youth in the U.S.? Yes, China has a population of 1.4 billion people and yes, it too has a youth population looking for jobs. How about South Korea with its economy losing steam and not only youth but huge young adult population that are unemployed. And Japan’s youth have just stopped looking and have turned themselves into hibernating hermits!
Indeed..👏👏👏..I have seen large number of young Japanese and South Koreans fleeing the misery, depressing way of life (e.g. people sleeping in internet coffees..WTF ??) and no jobs at their home countries to seek any opportunity in countries like Canada, NZ or Australia to be better off with any "s---t job". And the financial situation on those commonwealth countries are not good at all with the housing crisis, homeless, etc....and increasing unemployment as well...
@ Thank you for concurring with my comments. So many SK youth if lucky to work PT has had to work multiple PT shit jobs just to survive day to day. On the other hand, in Japan the youth don’t even try….. they succumb to their situation and do absolutely NOTHING but surrender into hibernation existence.
Maybe because the documentary is on Chinese youth? Not other countries? If you want to watch those ones just search and you can find them. Funny….
Lets talk about sweden and the entire world and so on and on. This is a 25 minute video my goodness….
You seem to be confused about how information works. Yeah, you can also find information about Korea, and other places. But this is a documentary about a specific thing in China.... not about Korea. If I want to watch a documentary about Korea I will watch a documentary about Korea. You see how that works - like if I watch a video about diabetes, I don't say, yeah, what about osteoporosis....
@@ccs8575 I’m just stating an opinion as this video gives a one dimensional generalization of Chinese unemployed youth.
As this is an open forum, it is free to express opinions from anyone whether you agree with it or not!
Such a loving family. Something I never had. You are rich without knowing.
Youths in China were born under one-child policy, meaning that each family has only one child, the parents treaure their only child, providing the best including quality education to them. Today China bas the highest number of youths in higher education than in its entire 5000 years history, also families are wealthiest ever, no parents let their only child work for cheap wage when their only child is getting education. Today's China is not poor any more, most families own their own homes without any mortgage, there's no need fo wealthyr kids to work to earn money. Wealthy parents want their only child stay focused on education not cheap wage jobs.
There wasn't just one child under the one-child policy. Most have two
@miwakikxvx
False, most people abided by the one-child policy because there was heavy financial penalty for violation of the policy, and also the extra child couldn't get official citizen ID, that means the extra child couldn't get education, medical care, driver license, job, etc.
Good video.
Ok Arte now make a Video about Drug District of Marseille and Ghettos in the Eastern Germany.
Do You know how to use the search function in UA-cam? Try it. Type in “arte Marseilles” there’s several results about social problems in Marseilles and Berlin. Is nobody allowed to criticize china?
Search UA-cam and you’ll find those videos. What are you talking about? It’s extensively covered.
Why? Arte makes plenty of documentaries. You’re just sore it’s one showing that China is in a terrible state 😂
Reported for spreading misinformation.
I think it was very fair and even handed.
In Spain the youth unemployment rate is 25%! 😢
good documentary. but as such a big station: can you get the city names right? it is not so hard to pronounce correctly. I can help you or just use google.
The young guy trying to convince his hard working and obviously quite poor parents to invest in a restaurant and basically playing all their hopes on this to break the cycle with a chance of succeeding below 10% is quite a signal of how desperate the situation must be
West media must try to amplify how bad and poor China is, however, China has no homeless, and no people living in subways like the US. How can you say that the boy's family is poor, yet they are great farmers and live in their own house! If you want for poor people, go to the largest democracy on earth, India!
“China has no homeless” 😂 🤡
The situation is very similar to India...
Indians are taking people jobs in the European countries.
What? He's young and wants to earn a lot of money but he can't? That's a worldwide problem, not a Chinese one. He also rents a quite big flat, being unemployed. I don't trust so much this video.
Tianqing is already wealthy with the love of his family.
I see that the wumaos are here already.
Imagine india and pakistan celebrating this news
China's economy is expected to grow at least 5% in 2024. How about USA & Europe? 2% or less. Youth unemployment? Tell me which country doesn't have youth employment? ...for China their national savings is very high , over 30%. In USA and Europe it is less than 10%. For parents who have 30% savings, they can afford for their only kid to be unemployed for a while, not to mention most of these youth are still in college or university. They are not going to starve to death or become homeless, sleeping on the streets or parks like what we see in the USA and Europe.
lol, anyone that groups EU and the US knows little about economics.
Do you really believe the doctored numbers coming out of CCP China? When has China cared about truth and honesty under the Communist regime?
China, the same country that stopped counting unemployment numbers on their youth?
3:41 The problem in china is dire indeed, but the translation should follow its meaning not just follow your own interpretation. The young man been interviewed said :”No job that meets my standard(decent and earns good money in his own perspective).” Not “but I haven’t found a job yet”. Which is quite quite different.
Can't wait for the comment section to be flooded with ccp bots lmao
NEET is not a new concept in industrialized countries, if you compare NEET rates across countries China's number does not stand out.
hopeless!
The letter "Q" in Pinyin should be read with a "ch" sound like for "chair", NOT chemistry.
Hence, Tianqin - should be pronounced Tian-Chin, ditto Qianqian as Chian-chian.
Goes to show how ill-informed & ignorant western journalists are of China when they couldn't even get such basics right about China. Yet they want their readers/viewers to believe in the credibility of their reports. lol 😂😂😂
why did you delete your last comment tankie? censorship is in your blood eh?
foreign journalists have different accents.Not everybody can pronounce it right,we should focus on the journalism not the pronunciation.
All the British people let's gather here and console each other 😂😂😂😂
Cheap propaganda.
Exactly like Japan in the 1990s following the bursting of the real estate bubble. Same causes, same consequences?