Aric Chen(@aricchen):Beijing has once again solved youth unemployment. The National Bureau of Statistics reports the rate for 16-to-24-year-olds, excluding students, at a tidy 18.9 percent in August 2026—a mere seasonal ripple, officials explain, caused by the inconvenient arrival of a record 12.7 million graduates. Anyone who worked a single hour last week counts as employed, a definition that would make the American or French figures look almost generous by comparison. When the same series hit 21.3 percent in 2023, publication simply ceased. It returned later with students removed and brackets redrawn, rendering prior peaks conveniently incomparable. Discouraged workers who stopped registering disappeared from the tables. Street vendors and gig riders remain “self-employed” and therefore invisible. A Peking University estimate once placed the true youth rate near 46 percent; the structural drivers—collapsed property investment, years of private-sector caution after regulatory campaigns, and entrenched deflation—have not reversed. The Party’s remedy is linguistic. Homeless graduates are reclassified as “dispersed persons.” Those who decline 996 schedules for jobs that do not exist are diagnosed with insufficient ambition. The charts improve. The curb in Sichuan, the unfinished tower, and the graduate who has stopped telling her parents about rejections do not.

2026.10.09 01:59

Beijing has once again solved youth unemployment. The National Bureau of Statistics reports the rate for 16-to-24-year-olds, excluding students, at a tidy 18.9 percent in August 2026—a mere seasonal ripple, officials explain, caused by the inconvenient arrival of a record 12.7 million graduates. Anyone who worked a single hour last week counts as employed, a definition that would make the American or French figures look almost generous by comparison. When the same series hit 21.3 percent in 2023, publication simply ceased. It returned later with students removed and brackets redrawn, rendering prior peaks conveniently incomparable. Discouraged workers who stopped registering disappeared from the tables. Street vendors and gig riders remain “self-employed” and therefore invisible. A Peking University estimate once placed the true youth rate near 46 percent; the structural drivers—collapsed property investment, years of private-sector caution after regulatory campaigns, and entrenched deflation—have not reversed. The Party’s remedy is linguistic. Homeless graduates are reclassified as “dispersed persons.” Those who decline 996 schedules for jobs that do not exist are diagnosed with insufficient ambition. The charts improve. The curb in Sichuan, the unfinished tower, and the graduate who has stopped telling her parents about rejections do not.

Aric Chen@aricchen

2026.04.21 21:38

Under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Chinese people are suffering immensely, with countless lives in despair. Millions are now homeless, sleeping rough on streets, under bridges, and in parks across major cities. Shockingly, recent estimates indicate that China’s homeless population has surged to around 24–50 million — a more than fivefold increase since 2020 — with over 60% being young people under the age of 33.5. These are not just the elderly or traditional vagrants, but a growing wave of young graduates, laid-off workers, and migrant laborers crushed by sky-high youth unemployment (still hovering near 17% officially, with real figures likely higher), stagnant wages, unaffordable urban housing, and a collapsing job market amid economic decline. While the CCP boasts of “prosperity” and “common prosperity,” reality tells a different story: young people who once dreamed of a better future are now forced to “lie flat,” deliver food on scooters, or huddle on sidewalks just to survive. The regime’s policies — from zero-COVID fallout to crackdowns on private enterprise and massive debt — have left an entire generation without hope or shelter. This is the true face of life under CCP rule: 民不聊生 (the people have no means to live). The propaganda cannot hide the human cost any longer. The world needs to see the suffering of China’s youth and the failure of authoritarian control. Share if you care about truth and human dignity. #ChinaHomelessCrisis# #YouthDespair# #CCPReality# #RealChina# #EndCCP#