Key Points
He has also repeatedly urged the young people to seek self-inflicted hardships, using his own experience of working in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution...
People wave Chinese flags beneath a large portrait of the late leader Mao Zedong during a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Chinese Communist Party at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China..
The return of these jobless young people to cities after the Cultural Revolution, in part, forced the party to embrace self-employment, or jobs outside the state-planned economy...
Today the partys propaganda machine is spinning stories about young people making a decent living by delivering meals, recycling garbage, setting up food stalls, and fishing and farming..
To ask us to endure hardships is to try to shift focus from the anemic economic growth and the decreasing job opportunities, said Zhang, who, like most people interviewed, wanted to be identified with only her family name because of safety concerns..
