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China Youth unemployment.

Who needs a real job?

Youth joblessness entrenches itself.

Few could have predicted the fallout last month after Xingyu Automotive Lighting, a big car parts maker in eastern

China, decided it had hired too many people over the summer.

The company gave an ultimatum to some 140 fresh graduates who had been employed there for just a few weeks,

either resign with half a month's salary or pick up a screwdriver and take a poorly paid job on the factory floor.

More than 100 chose to leave.

In China, where worker protection laws are feeble, sudden layoffs of this sort are nasty but hardly unheard of.

Yet when the news became public, it sparked an unusual outpouring of outrage.

The People's Daily, a Communist Party mouthpiece, slammed the company for trampling on society's trust.

Volkswagen, a German carmaker supplied by Xing Yu, said it was investigating the dismissals.

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.

Why the FOSS?

The layoffs tapped into a deep well of public sympathy for China's young people.

They are struggling in a brutal job market that has upended people's expectations of what it takes to succeed in China.

A decade ago, a university degree was still a ticket to a decent career, but a record 12 .7 million graduated this year,

nearly 500 ,000 more than last year, and twice the number that did so a decade ago.

Demand for these young workers, meanwhile, has plummeted amid a property market slump and flagging consumption, and despite government attempts to fix it,

the problem is becoming only more entrenched.

When China's official gauge of youth employment reached 20 % in 2023,

it caused so much alarm that officials suspended the data series,

and after a few months started releasing an optimized and much lower rate, based on a different methodology.

But this summer, even the adjusted rate has been creeping up towards 20 % as well.

Officials have already ordered state -owned companies to hire more graduates.

They will be hoping that Xing Yu's humiliation will prompt private companies also to take note,

says Jenny Chan, a sociologist at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

She says the government wants everyone to share the national responsibility and avoid layoffs, if at all possible.

The industries that once soaked up a lot of young people are now struggling.

A regulatory crackdown has destroyed hundreds of thousands of tutoring jobs.

Chinese entertainment companies, meanwhile, are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence to churn out shows without the need for actors or producers.

Tech companies are quietly laying off engineers, and China's vast gig economy, once a reliable last resort for job seekers,

is now overstuffed with underemployed drivers, so average earnings have slumped.

Years of high youth unemployment are starting to reshape Chinese society.

This intensely competitive country places a higher value on hard work than most,

but now many young people are getting used to the fact that no one wants their labor.

Some have dropped out of the rat race altogether

and say they are now lying flat or giving up finding a job until the economy improves.

Others have become self -described full -time children, staying at home to cook and clean for their parents for pocket money.

Those who cannot cope with so much family time can at least pretend to go to work.

Since last year, offices have been set up in several cities across

China by firms with names like the Pretend to Work Company.

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,

and enjoy the routine of office life as they submit job applications or scroll on their phones.

Public libraries are another favoured place for the pretend workforce to hang out.

On a recent Thursday afternoon, the tables in Beijing's Capital Library, one of the city's biggest, were packed with young folk.

Some were polishing CVs, others playing computer games.

There's loads of pretend workers around here," said one man in a t -shirt

and shorts who had been laid off from a tech firm six months ago.

For his part, he said, he was taking a voluntary break from full -time employment to work on some of his own software projects

and read a lot more books.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale s’appuie sur la vidéo « China-youth unemployment ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : China, pretend, youth, companies, layoffs. Cette vidéo contient 51 phrases et 731 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 4:49. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 152 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. Seuls 77 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

15 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
pretend verbe	/pɹəˈtɛnd/	feindre, faire semblant
worker nom	/ˈwɝ.kɚ/	travailleur, travailleuse
meanwhile adverbe	/ˈmiːnwaɪl/	pendant ce temps-là, entretemps
hire verbe	/ˈhaɪɹ/	louer
salary nom	/ˈsæləɹi/	salaire
unemployment nom	/ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/	chômage
vast adjectif	/væst/	vaste, immense
pocket nom	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	poche
unusual adjectif	/ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/	inhabituel, insolite
producer nom	/pɹəˈdjuːsə/	producteur, productrice
desk nom	/dɛsk/	bureau, pupitre
decent adjectif	/ˈdiː.sənt/	intègre
sudden adjectif	/ˈsʌd.ən/	soudain, subit
resource nom	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	ressource
resort nom	/ɹɪˈzɔɹt/	lieu de vacances, resort

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Sens
give up verbe	se rendre
lay off verbe	virer, licencier
pick up verbe	soulever

La grammaire de cette vidéo

Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

Structure	Dans la vidéo
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant	has upended · has plummeted · have already ordered
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	had been employed · is now overstuffed · have been set

Prononciation à surveiller

Les sons « th »: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, mouthpiece /ˈmaʊθˌpiːs/
Les sons « sh » et « zh »: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, regulatory /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: hire /ˈhaɪɹ/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/, unheard /ʌnˈhɜː(ɹ)d/
/tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, adjust /əˈd͡ʒʌst/, gauge /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, outrage /ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/, hire /ˈhaɪɹ/, salary /ˈsæləɹi/, producer /pɹəˈdjuːsə/, resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/

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Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
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