Chinese President Xi Jinping's push for "common prosperity” is in part aimed at turning the younger generation into motivated, patriotic and productive workers.
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A trek into history A promotional poster for Yang s book,
To the Finest School I Know. [Photo provided to China Daily]
By walking and writing, he tried to understand the trek s influence on the intellectuals in the brigade, while at the same time, with the long walk, he was trying to find a solution to his own anxiety, deal with his relationship with life and to become a real writer. The creation of this book allowed me to understand the concept of family and homeland, he says.
In the opening chapter of the book, Yang quotes Israel, saying (During the early war years in particular) before cynicism and disillusionment set in, seeking the truth was the very reason for going to Kunming .
Chinese millennials lying flat doing nothing, worries Beijing ANI | Updated: Jul 05, 2021 08:39 IST
Beijing [China], July 5 (ANI): Young people in China have set off a nascent counter-culture movement that involves lying down and doing as little as possible and Beijing is not happy about it.
Five years ago, Luo Huazhong discovered that he enjoyed doing nothing. He quit his job as a factory worker in China, biked 1,300 miles from Sichuan Province to Tibet and decided he could get by on odd jobs and USD 60 a month from his savings. He called his new lifestyle lying flat , reported The New York Times.
Chinese millennials lying flat , doing nothing
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05 Jul 2021, 13:18 GMT+10
Beijing [China], July 5 (ANI): Young people in China have set off a nascent counter-culture movement that involves lying down and doing as little as possible and Beijing is not happy about it.
Five years ago, Luo Huazhong discovered that he enjoyed doing nothing. He quit his job as a factory worker in China, biked 1,300 miles from Sichuan Province to Tibet and decided he could get by on odd jobs and USD 60 a month from his savings. He called his new lifestyle lying flat , reported The New York Times. I have been chilling, Luo, 31, wrote in a blog post in April, describing his way of life. I don t feel like there s anything wrong. He titled his post Lying Flat Is Justice, attaching a photo of himself lying on his bed in a dark room with the curtains drawn. Before long, the post was being celebrated by Chinese millennials as an anti-consumerist manifesto. Lying flat went viral and has since becom