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This chapter explores the challenges faced by the youth in China, including high unemployment rates and the rejection of the country's hustle culture. Insights from an economics professor shed light on the situation, with a focus on the high unemployment rate for young people, especially women, in urban areas.

China’s ambitious youth planned to cash in on their country’s meteoric rise on the world stage. Instead, many of these 20-somethings are disillusioned and “lying flat.” Economist Nancy Qian explains why.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Cristian Ayala and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sam Sanders.

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