SHANGHAI: The first weekend after COVID-19 restrictions ended last month, dozens of young Chinese jostled in the dark at a heavy-metal concert in a tiny Shanghai music venue that reeked of sweat and hard liquor.
After three years of lockdowns, testing, economic hardship and isolation, many of China's Generation Z had found a new political voice, repudiating their stereotypes as either nationalist keyboard warriors or apolitical loafers.
By Casey Hall, Josh Horwitz and Yew Lun Tian SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The first weekend after COVID-19 restrictions ended last month, dozens of young Chin.
China's population has decreased for the first time in over 60 years, signalling the start of long-term decline that will bring demographic challenges for the world's second-largest economy as well as the world, media reports said.It was the .