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The national demographic crisis is threatening to adversely affect both the supply and demand sides of China’s economy, prompting a scramble among authorities to promote births.
A growing number of young Chinese are looking for more flexible working arrangements, partly because of bleak job prospects in a weakening economy, but also because they want more freedom.
Youth unemployment rate rose from 15.3 per cent in January to 19.9 per cent in July as record 10 million university graduates entered the job market.
Lying flat, or tang ping in Chinese, means doing the bare minimum to get by, and striving for nothing more than what is absolutely essential for survival, but this ethos poses a threat to President Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream”.