China’s Unemployed Graduates Are Turning To Countryside Jobs - But Is It The Answer?

Faced with soaring youth unemployment, some of China’s university graduates are moving back to their rural hometowns to find work. Backed by Beijing’s ‘Rural Revitalisation’ push, more grads have been taking up jobs in small cities and village areas in recent years.

However, adapting to country life can be a challenge for those accustomed to big-city comforts.

00:00 Meet the livestream duck farmers
00:41 Why China has so many unemployed urban youths
01:40 Struggles of adjusting to rural life
02:29 Why city youths want to work in the countryside
03:23 Memories of Mao Zedong’s ‘Return To The Countryside’ push
04:26 Challenges amid China’s rural revival plans?
05:53 Not all return to hometowns out of choice
05:27 How big is China’s rural economy?

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