The Shocking Truth About China’s Jobless Youth: Graduates Search Trash Bins for Food

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Currently, it is the peak season for autumn recruitment at universities across mainland China. At campus recruitment events in Liaoning, Harbin, and other locations, hundreds of thousands of graduates are vying for just a few hundred positions. Extremely fierce competition.

Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China on September 17th showed that China's youth unemployment rate for those aged 16 to 24 climbed to 18.9% in August, the highest level since the statistical methodology was adjusted in December 2023. This figure not only reflects the severe pressures of the Chinese economy but also reveals the continued deterioration of the youth employment situation.

Furthermore, some experts argue that China's actual youth unemployment rate may be significantly higher than the officially reported figure, as many young people in the so-called “flexible employment”, which is a term crafted by the CCP, and those who have given up searching for work due to frustrations are not included in the statistics.

Many unemployed young people go to the market to collect discarded leftovers and take them home to cook into a variety of dishes. Recently, many bloggers posted videos of themselves doing this on social media, encouraging more young people to join in.

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