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China's rising youth unemployment: Part 1
FromBusiness Daily
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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Aug 14, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Is trouble brewing for the world’s second largest economy?
China’s exports are down, the property market’s creaking, and millions of young people - more than one in five - are officially classed as unemployed.
It's not just the lack of jobs, it's the quality of employment that's now on offer - much of it informal in sectors like hospitality or food delivery.
In the first of two programmes assessing the economic challenges, Ed Butler asks, what's gone wrong?
Produced and presented by Ed Butler.
(Image: A job-seeker look for employment at a job fair for college graduates in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province in Feb 2023. Credit: ZHONG NAN / Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
China’s exports are down, the property market’s creaking, and millions of young people - more than one in five - are officially classed as unemployed.
It's not just the lack of jobs, it's the quality of employment that's now on offer - much of it informal in sectors like hospitality or food delivery.
In the first of two programmes assessing the economic challenges, Ed Butler asks, what's gone wrong?
Produced and presented by Ed Butler.
(Image: A job-seeker look for employment at a job fair for college graduates in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province in Feb 2023. Credit: ZHONG NAN / Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Released:
Aug 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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