Seminar: Welcome and a Discussion of ‘Youth unemployment and youth sentiment in China’
Published: 19 November 2025
In this first meeting of the seminar series for the academic year 2023–4 we will discuss this new development in the context of rising youth unemployment and the context of the ‘lying flat’ movement, educational trends and public attitudes.
Speaker: Discussion led by Dr Joseph Zhao, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow.
Location: Room 129, Hetherington Building, University of Glasgow.
This seminar is open to students and staff.
In August, it was reported that the Chinese authorities were no longer releasing youth unemployment data (See for example, AFP, “China Stops Releasing Youth Unemployment Rate”, The Guardian, 15 August 2023). In this first meeting of the seminar series for the academic year 2023–4 we will discuss this new development in the context of rising youth unemployment and the context of the ‘lying flat’ movement, educational trends and public attitudes.
In advance of this seminar, you may find reading the following two papers to be of use/interest:
- Feng et al. (2023), A Closer Look at Causes of Youth Unemployment in the People’s Republic of China, Asian Development Bank Brief No. 247, June.
- Li, S., Whalley, J., & Xing, C. (2014). China's higher education expansion and unemployment of college graduates. China Economic Review, 30, 567-582.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043951X13000710.
The Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the MacFie Bequest.
For more details on the SCCR Seminar Series: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/sccr/events/
First published: 19 November 2025
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