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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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이 말하기 레슨은 영상 “China-youth unemployment”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: China, pretend, youth, companies, layoffs. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 51개와 단어 731개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 4:49입니다. 화자는 분당 약 152단어로, 일상 대화에 가까운 자연스러운 속도로 말합니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 77%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어	발음	뜻
worker 명사	/ˈwɝ.kɚ/	노동자, 로동자
hire 동사	/ˈhaɪɹ/	고용하다
salary 명사	/ˈsæləɹi/	급료, 봉급
unemployment 명사	/ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/	실업
vast 형용사	/væst/	광대하다, 거대하다
pocket 명사	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	호주머니, 포켓
producer 명사	/pɹəˈdjuːsə/	생산자, 제작자
desk 명사	/dɛsk/	책상
sudden 형용사	/ˈsʌd.ən/	급격한
resource 명사	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	자원
resort 명사	/ɹɪˈzɔɹt/	리조트, 휴양지
routine 명사	/ɹuˈtin/	일과, 루틴
consumption 명사	/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/	소비
rapidly 부사	/ˈɹæpɪdli/	급속(急速)히
investigate 동사	/ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/	조사하다

영상에 나오는 구동사

단어	뜻
give up 동사	항복하다
pick up 동사	줍다

이 영상의 문법

화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형	영상 속 표현
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때	has upended · has plummeted · have already ordered
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점	had been employed · is now overstuffed · have been set

주의할 발음

“th” 소리: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, mouthpiece /ˈmaʊθˌpiːs/
“sh”와 “zh” 소리: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, regulatory /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

/f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, folk /foʊk/, workforce /ˈwɝk.foɹs/, fallout /ˈfɔlˌaʊt/, favoured /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/
/v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: vast /væst/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, voluntary /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/, favoured /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/, overstuffed /ˈoʊvɚstʌft/
/z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/, resort /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, resign /ɹɪˈzaɪn/, optimize /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/

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