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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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Esta aula de conversação usa o vídeo “China-youth unemployment”. As palavras que mais se repetem: China, pretend, youth, companies, layoffs. Este vídeo tem 51 frases e 731 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 4:49. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 152 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. Apenas 77% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é exigente.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

15 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:

Palavra	Pronúncia	Significado
pretend verbo	/pɹəˈtɛnd/	fingir
worker substantivo	/ˈwɝ.kɚ/	trabalhador
meanwhile advérbio	/ˈmiːnwaɪl/	ao mesmo tempo, simultaneamente
hire verbo	/ˈhaɪɹ/	contratar, alugar
salary substantivo	/ˈsæləɹi/	salário
unemployment substantivo	/ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/	desemprego
vast adjetivo	/væst/	vasto
pocket substantivo	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	bolso, algibeira
unusual adjetivo	/ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/	inesperado, inusual
producer substantivo	/pɹəˈdjuːsə/	produtor, produtora
desk substantivo	/dɛsk/	escrivaninha, carteira
decent adjetivo	/ˈdiː.sənt/	digno
sudden adjetivo	/ˈsʌd.ən/	repentino, súbito
resource substantivo	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	recurso, expediente
resort substantivo	/ɹɪˈzɔɹt/	resort, estância

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

Palavra	Significado
give up verbo	render-se
lay off verbo	despedir
pick up verbo	pegar

Gramática neste vídeo

As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:

Estrutura	No vídeo
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora	has upended · has plummeted · have already ordered
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz	had been employed · is now overstuffed · have been set

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

Os sons de “th”: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, mouthpiece /ˈmaʊθˌpiːs/
Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, regulatory /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/, unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, vast /væst/, pocket /ˈpɑ.kɪt/, desk /dɛsk/
/l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: meanwhile /ˈmiːnwaɪl/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, brutal /ˈbɹuːtəl/, scroll /skɹoʊl/
/h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: hire /ˈhaɪɹ/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/, unheard /ʌnˈhɜː(ɹ)d/

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