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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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このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「China-youth unemployment」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：China, pretend, youth, companies, layoffs。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が51文、単語が731語あります。音声の長さは4:49です。話す速さは1分あたり約152語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は77%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
worker 名詞	/ˈwɝ.kɚ/	労働者, 勤労者
meanwhile 副詞	/ˈmiːnwaɪl/	その間に
hire 動詞	/ˈhaɪɹ/	借りる
salary 名詞	/ˈsæləɹi/	サラリー, 給料
unemployment 名詞	/ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/	失業
vast 形容詞	/væst/	広大な, 莫大な
pocket 名詞	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	ポケット, 懐中
unusual 形容詞	/ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/	珍しい
producer 名詞	/pɹəˈdjuːsə/	生産者, 製作者
desk 名詞	/dɛsk/	机
sudden 形容詞	/ˈsʌd.ən/	突然の
resource 名詞	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	資源, 資産
resort 名詞	/ɹɪˈzɔɹt/	リゾート
routine 名詞	/ɹuˈtin/	日課, ルーティン
consumption 名詞	/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/	消費

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
give up 動詞	降服する
lay off 動詞	解雇する
pick up 動詞	拾う, 拾い上げる

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	has upended · has plummeted · have already ordered
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	had been employed · is now overstuffed · have been set

注意したい発音

「th」の音: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, mouthpiece /ˈmaʊθˌpiːs/
「sh」と「zh」の音: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, regulatory /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: salary /ˈsæləɹi/, rapidly /ˈɹæpɪdli/, reliable /ɹɪˈlaɪəbl̩/, alarm /əˈlɑɹm/, regulatory /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: vast /væst/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, voluntary /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/, favoured /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/, overstuffed /ˈoʊvɚstʌft/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, folk /foʊk/, workforce /ˈwɝk.foɹs/, fallout /ˈfɔlˌaʊt/, favoured /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/

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自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。worker, meanwhile, hireなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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