China’s slowdown is hurting the young
The woes of vocational-college graduates are revealing
CHINA’s economy is in grim shape. Much of the pain is being felt by the young. Unemployment among Chinese aged 16-24 is running at 18%. That number is an undercount: it misses rural youngsters and those out of work for more than three months. The crisis is hurting even relatively privileged youths, including nearly 3.5m who earned undergraduate university degrees this year.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “China’s slowdown hurts the young”
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