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China Youth unemployment.
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Who needs a real job?
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Youth joblessness entrenches itself.
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Few could have predicted the fallout last month after Xingyu Automotive Lighting, a big car parts maker in eastern
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China, decided it had hired too many people over the summer.
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The company gave an ultimatum to some 140 fresh graduates who had been employed there for just a few weeks,
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either resign with half a month's salary or pick up a screwdriver and take a poorly paid job on the factory floor.
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More than 100 chose to leave.
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In China, where worker protection laws are feeble, sudden layoffs of this sort are nasty but hardly unheard of.
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Yet when the news became public, it sparked an unusual outpouring of outrage.
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The People's Daily, a Communist Party mouthpiece, slammed the company for trampling on society's trust.
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Volkswagen, a German carmaker supplied by Xing Yu, said it was investigating the dismissals.
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As the pressure built, the company apologized, then fired its head of human resources and cut some of its executive salaries as an act of contrition.
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Why the FOSS?
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The layoffs tapped into a deep well of public sympathy for China's young people.
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They are struggling in a brutal job market that has upended people's expectations of what it takes to succeed in China.
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A decade ago, a university degree was still a ticket to a decent career, but a record 12 .7 million graduated this year,
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nearly 500 ,000 more than last year, and twice the number that did so a decade ago.
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Demand for these young workers, meanwhile, has plummeted amid a property market slump and flagging consumption, and despite government attempts to fix it,
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the problem is becoming only more entrenched.
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When China's official gauge of youth employment reached 20 % in 2023,
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it caused so much alarm that officials suspended the data series,
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and after a few months started releasing an optimized and much lower rate, based on a different methodology.
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But this summer, even the adjusted rate has been creeping up towards 20 % as well.
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Officials have already ordered state -owned companies to hire more graduates.
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They will be hoping that Xing Yu's humiliation will prompt private companies also to take note,
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says Jenny Chan, a sociologist at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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She says the government wants everyone to share the national responsibility and avoid layoffs, if at all possible.
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The industries that once soaked up a lot of young people are now struggling.
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A regulatory crackdown has destroyed hundreds of thousands of tutoring jobs.
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Chinese entertainment companies, meanwhile, are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence to churn out shows without the need for actors or producers.
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Tech companies are quietly laying off engineers, and China's vast gig economy, once a reliable last resort for job seekers,
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is now overstuffed with underemployed drivers, so average earnings have slumped.
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Years of high youth unemployment are starting to reshape Chinese society.
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This intensely competitive country places a higher value on hard work than most,
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but now many young people are getting used to the fact that no one wants their labor.
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Some have dropped out of the rat race altogether
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and say they are now lying flat or giving up finding a job until the economy improves.
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Others have become self -described full -time children, staying at home to cook and clean for their parents for pocket money.
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Those who cannot cope with so much family time can at least pretend to go to work.
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Since last year, offices have been set up in several cities across
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China by firms with names like the Pretend to Work Company.
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For a small daily fee of 30 yuan, that's $4 .50 or so, people can sit at a desk, hang out by the office water cooler,
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and enjoy the routine of office life as they submit job applications or scroll on their phones.
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Public libraries are another favoured place for the pretend workforce to hang out.
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On a recent Thursday afternoon, the tables in Beijing's Capital Library, one of the city's biggest, were packed with young folk.
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Some were polishing CVs, others playing computer games.
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There's loads of pretend workers around here," said one man in a t -shirt
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and shorts who had been laid off from a tech firm six months ago.
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For his part, he said, he was taking a voluntary break from full -time employment to work on some of his own software projects
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and read a lot more books.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „China-youth unemployment“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: China, pretend, youth, companies, layoffs. Dieses Video enthält 51 Sätze und 731 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 4:49. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 152 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. Nur 77 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also anspruchsvoll.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| pretend Verb | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | vortäuschen |
| worker Substantiv | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | Arbeiter, Arbeiterin |
| meanwhile Adverb | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | währenddessen, inzwischen |
| hire Verb | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | mieten, heuern |
| salary Substantiv | /ˈsæləɹi/ | Gehalt, Lohn |
| unemployment Substantiv | /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/ | Arbeitslosigkeit, Werklosigkeit |
| vast Adjektiv | /væst/ | beträchtlich, weit |
| pocket Substantiv | /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ | Tasche, Sack |
| unusual Adjektiv | /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/ | ungewöhnlich, unüblich |
| producer Substantiv | /pɹəˈdjuːsə/ | Hersteller, Herstellerin |
| desk Substantiv | /dɛsk/ | Schreibtisch |
| decent Adjektiv | /ˈdiː.sənt/ | anständig, sittsam |
| sudden Adjektiv | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | plötzlich, jäh |
| resource Substantiv | /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ | Ressource, Mittel |
| resort Substantiv | /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/ | Kurort, Resort |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Bedeutung |
|---|---|
| give up Verb | aufgeben, sich ergeben |
| lay off Verb | entlassen |
| pick up Verb | aufheben, aufnehmen |
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | has upended · has plummeted · have already ordered |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | had been employed · is now overstuffed · have been set |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
- Die „th“-Laute: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, mouthpiece /ˈmaʊθˌpiːs/
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, regulatory /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): worker /ˈwɝ.kɚ/, meanwhile /ˈmiːnwaɪl/, quietly /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/, workforce /ˈwɝk.foɹs/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/, succeed /səkˈsiːd/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, gauge /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, amid /əˈmɪd/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: salary /ˈsæləɹi/, vast /væst/, rapidly /ˈɹæpɪdli/, nasty /ˈnæs.ti/, slam /ˈslæm/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie pretend, worker, meanwhile.
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