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The Week Unwrapped - with Olly Mann

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The Chinese Government's Plan to Send Young People to the Rural Areas

Caroline Kan is the author of Under Red Skies The Life and Times of a Chinese Millennial. China has record high youth unemployment at the moment so almost one in five under twenty four year olds are unemployed. One provincial government has said you just have to go you know go look for more manual ones or more vocational ones Look why don't some of you go down to the countryside and do more farm work and that kind of stuff.

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