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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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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “China-youth unemployment”. Las palabras que más se repiten: China, pretend, youth, companies, layoffs. Este vídeo tiene 51 frases y 731 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:49. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 152 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 77 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| pretend verbo | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | aparentar, hacer de |
| worker sustantivo | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | trabajador, obrero |
| meanwhile adverbio | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | mientras tanto |
| hire verbo | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | contratar, emplear |
| salary sustantivo | /ˈsæləɹi/ | salario, sueldo |
| unemployment sustantivo | /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/ | desempleo, paro |
| vast adjetivo | /væst/ | vasto, enorme |
| pocket sustantivo | /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ | bolsillo, bolsa |
| unusual adjetivo | /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/ | inusual, inusitado |
| producer sustantivo | /pɹəˈdjuːsə/ | productor, productora |
| desk sustantivo | /dɛsk/ | escritorio, pupitre |
| decent adjetivo | /ˈdiː.sənt/ | decente |
| sudden adjetivo | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | repentino, súbito |
| resource sustantivo | /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ | recurso |
| resort sustantivo | /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/ | estación turística, complejo vacacional |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| give up verbo | rendirse, entregar |
| lay off verbo | despedir, destituir |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has upended · has plummeted · have already ordered |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | had been employed · is now overstuffed · have been set |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
- Los sonidos de “th”: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, mouthpiece /ˈmaʊθˌpiːs/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, regulatory /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: slam /ˈslæm/, spark /ˈspɑɹk/, scroll /skɹoʊl/, slump /slʌmp/, screwdriver /ˈskɹuˌdɹaɪvɚ/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vast /væst/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, voluntary /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/, favoured /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/, overstuffed /ˈoʊvɚstʌft/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/, resort /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, resign /ɹɪˈzaɪn/, optimize /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como pretend, worker, meanwhile.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.