China's Youth Are Leaving City Life For Countryside: What's The Allure? | Young & Rural In China

[@mosimosi630]

This is everywhere even in the US UK and Canada young people are realizing they were lied to they don’t need cars and big houses they need gardens and peace

[@Crumpets7377]

So true.

[@vortex162]

A car allows you to go where not everybody else goes in your own time.

[@mosimosi630]

@@vortex162 the get one

[@Kotak8]

Wide accessibility to 4G or 5G internet and well-built municipal and transportation infrastructure have completely changed rural China into desirable places for work-life balance of young well educated Chinese people.

[@CR-sj7xd]

no

[@nulnoh219]

@@CR-sj7xd Yes

[@markaven5249]

There's always a group that benefits, and a group that doesn't benefit.

[@vortex162]

E-smog is what eventually kills the health of everyone in cities AND in the country. However, modern life has reached its climax and is in the decline as the capitalist system is coming to an end.

[@manchu-qu9mw]

China is very impressive in infrastructure, connectivity with optimizing her technologies into the rural and urban way of living and working.

[@georwoogle]

Enjoyed this documentary tremendously, through which I have become to know more of China's youth of the day. Watched two documentaries at one time. Thank you for sharing. Expect more to come.

[@brianquinn5060]

Great video,country lifestyle catering for most lifestyles with in beautiful nature.

[@ericlin1243]

China’s countryside needs more young talents to come back and live there, after that positive changes will naturally follow

[@不才多指教]

As a Chinese, I need to tell you that the development of China's coastal and inland areas is very uneven. Every year, a large number of young people from inland provinces go to coastal provinces to seek jobs. As an inland province, I also work in coastal areas. There are big houses in the cities of mainland China, and there are also big houses in the countryside, but I don’t have much time to enjoy them. In coastal cities, I can only rent a rental house of about 10 square meters for 150 US dollars per month. I have to work and make money to meet my family's living expenses. I can only go back to inland provinces to reunite with my family during the Spring Festival or important holidays every year. Inland provinces, including cities, cannot provide many jobs! This is sad!

[@ganpagol2583]

You are correct

[@vortex162]

@@不才多指教 it takes Innovation and money to develop a sustainable business, that can be achieved when a group of young individuals with a common aspiration and understanding of ideals find together.

[@chinafengtv1106]

China's Internet is now very developed, and there are many digital nomads and self-media people. Now is the time for vigorous development of the camping equipment market and tourism industry. This model will be very popular in the next 20 years.

[@cherryzhuzhuloveslemontea]

This is awesome! I think the most priceless possession a person can have is good health and time. This way of lifestyle can really safeguard a person's overall well-being by investing quality time with family and innovative job progression. 🥰🥰🥰 Not cut throat you die or I die kind of work lifestyle which is totally not sustainable.

[@raydiane1]

I would be ecstatic if my son wants to come home to help with my farming. I would love being a farmer. It’s more relaxing and you’re your own boss. City life is too stressful and it’s not forever one.

[@vortex162]

Farming is “relaxing”??? Their days of work is from mornings to evenings it’s not a nine to five job.

[@ivantan5690]

It really takes alot of courage to jump off the corporate life/salary to pursue something that really makes u happy/fulfilled.

[@vortex162]

It’s all a matter whether or not you have the resources to afford such transition most are struggling just to put food on the table and pay bills that’s it!

[@lisagallo1745]

Wow. so brave to go against the pressure to conform. Regardless of how much he is achieving in revitalising the countryside and living a peaceful life, he is met with criticism from the grand illusion that success can only be achieved by permanently living in cities. He is far-sighted, eventually everyone will want to move to away from the overcrowded,, high pressure environments of the cities to the exquisite natural beauty of the countryside.

[@lucyfiniarel2347]

its a very beautiful place. seems so peaceful.

[@lisawan1279]

I am in the US and I am fascinated by this video

[@norman6499]

This is the kind of life many people dreams of

[@frederickastarr9771]

I applaud this video, thank you!

[@木鱼老汉半夜敲]

People from other provinces began to return to their hometowns for development, because the development of each city was shrinking, and China's Internet was developed, and various online stores began to promote the products of their hometowns.

[@Deeeepsea-j5m]

New Life style of China’s rising middle class? Clean air, nature all around, room to breathe and move around, space for cycling, as a middle class person myself that’s where i would move to. Add amenities of boutique shops, coffee shops, galleries, a suburban village is born!🌈🌻🍄😍💜😎🌺

[@diyRP9]

True talk!! City life is the same concrete, sterile, and highly polluted environment no matter what country.. city is all the same trap of overpriced rents, overcrowded streets, and lack of natural clean air. 40 years of city life is not worth the rat race. Rural communities and a real connection to nature is truly priceless.

[@nikki5399]

None of these people are middle class. Only the super wealthy people are capable of doing this unfortunately. Most people in China are making less than 2,000 yuan($280 US) per month and can barely afford food and rent.

[@Deeeepsea-j5m]

@@nikki5399 is that so? What’s your source? Your figure seems far-fetched. From what i see of China1-3 tier city life, no one would be able to survive on $280/mo.

[@andia968]

@@nikki5399 not true ... a cleaning service in top tier cities earn about .... 1350 dollars per mo... food delivery boys earn more than that up to 2700/ what you said was true 15-20 years ago though

[@HouseDaw]

@@nikki5399 你说的是中国1995年吗？很奇怪，国外有那么多胡扯的人

[@nancydonaldson3886]

As long as the elderly don't get pushed out and are taken care of I think it's a great idea. Would also help stop families being separated by parents going to work in the city leaving children with grandparents

[@remix-yy1hs]

That's what xi said. He wanted to keep families together. Now they can almost make the same money in the city and life is cheaper than the city. Win win.

[@AlejandroPikoulasPlata]

Thank you for this very interesting reportage CNA!! 😊

[@dumplingboy123]

They made the co-working business model work successfully in rural China.

[@邱淑芳-l7g]

返璞歸真，大陸的年輕人在農村，有無限的可能可以去創造

[@calumsowhat]

I understand Xinchen's mother's mindset of wanting her son to succeed in the city, as that is the mentality for her and possibly the locals, but he is doing really well. She should be proud of him and not give a flying f***k what her friends or neighbours think.

[@AlejandroPikoulasPlata]

Well said!!

[@YiLunMusk]

You summed up Asian parent's mentally

[@brandonso]

I love these positive, encouraging stories. Thank you and keep them coming!

[@sct4040]

Less hustle, more peace.

[@jiniemoeyon1862]

I'm from northeast India.. it has always been my dream to go to china country side because of their culture and now I'm more eager to go visit them because of young people.❤❤😊

[@gentoffire]

I've lived through countryside and metropolitan. I must say once you get the certain age, you always want to go to the countryside and live there till the end of life. I think my country is going through this transformation that many young people are going back to their villages but also spending their time using their knowledge to upgrade the country life. I think in 20 years time, we will again see a new lanscape in China.

[@HHH-nv9xb]

Each time that I have visited a major city, I am ready to leave after a few days. Just like to have a little space and not constantly being rushed. It is not all about $. It is about the overall quality of life.

[@angelalim0502]

When we dun see the youth working in the city or for big corporation, we think that the country's economy is dying. But there are other areas which is under-developed and have many new potential for growth. These youths have found the calling! Well done!

[@yankang6555]

Such a great documentary!!

[@jjsamuelgunn1136]

why not? this should be the way. there has been too much human rural migration to cities all over the world. that is why you get high property prices in cities and also crammed living conditions. you also get slums because the poor can't afford housing. look at all the major cities and their social problems. with advanced digital networks, you don't have to be worried about being disconnected from the world even when you are living in a rural village. and you get lower cost of living, more housing space per dollar and healthy fresh air everyday. if i have a choice, i would move out from the city too. other countries should follow china's example here

[@isshiomi6364]

Right decision...Country side life is much better in every possible way than Metro city life ....Moreover technology has brought so many city life benefit to rural areas...

[@EvezYan]

Very positive news about young in China. Recent years report on 'tang ping' (lying flat) and 'bai lan' (let it rot) is really devastating to our Chinese ethnicity.

[@asdkotable]

Did you notice that a lot of these people are high-income earners but also have the spare time to go cycling around town and atuff? The lying flat kids are the ones who couldn't reach this. If China wants to promote a happier and healthier youth, then they have to change China's cutthroat work culture. There is no way a young person working the 996 is going to be able to live like this

[@angelalim0502]

This are negative mindset from those who only believe in "working hard" for a living. Don't underestimate how the younger ones can combat this kind of unhealthy and stressful working environment. Work-Life balance is how we should live our life. Just aim to be better than who we were yesterday one step at a time, there is no need to compare with how others live their life.

[@rajeshn5653]

Investment or business in urban, but life in nearby rural is pleasant and comfortable.

[@joesephstylin1577]

I'm forever grateful for the upbringings I received growing up in North America, but I sometimes wonder what life would have been like had my parents stayed in China and what my life there would look like. When I was younger, I thought I was incredibly lucky to have grown up in the States and Canada and not China. As time passes, though, seeing the magnitude of progress China has underwent, I'm not so sure.

[@lennyhardi3760]

China can dothis, becauss all the infrastructure already very mature and good, road, highway, wifi, public transportation, etc...very impressive indeed.

[@jackji2007]

now I know where to go when I go back to China to travel. learn from these young ppl and gain the strength.

[@lizabrown6458]

I can’t believe the great condition of the roads in rural areas - here in UK they are terrible with hundreds of potholes & roads too busy to enjoy cycling unforuneately.

[@fun2speakenglish431]

Li ziqi was the first to set this trend

[@longboarderanonymous5718]

Thanks for Posting! Inspirational 🌟

[@lokesh303101]

Rural Revitalization = Coworking Space + Livingspace + Greenspace + Commercial Space + Connectivity.

[@jakobnan5063]

It's my dream: Living of a Digital Nomad Lifestyle. And this documentary is excellent! It‘s very attractive! I like it.

[@cleenlivin]

Very interesting. This could be a model for many developing and developed countries to bring tech to rural area. The only problem I see in Western countries is the likely disrespect, bad behavior and elitist views of the young often entitled techies who often think they are better than their rural fellow human beings.

[@CC-dx6bc]

Yes they live in La La land. Damned techies 😂😂😂

[@Red9871]

感谢分享，DN应该是数字游民的缩写吧。希望年轻人能够从山野中汲取力量和智慧。

[@budisuwandhi6818]

Many of China youths success in Agri bussiness with worldwide connection in sales.

[@木鱼老汉半夜敲]

In fact, a set of agricultural breeding technology is the most valuable. How to use technology to manage the farm

[@glalza]

I pray that the people of china find the hope and courage To gather in numbers and silently walk together in strength. There is no need for words there is no need for anger, just the truth of people walking together sharing their support for change..

[@NicholasCST]

im malaysian.. im trying to getting out city too.. i like country side life more peacefull

[@lon.2130]

Where do you stay in Malaysia currently?

[@NicholasCST]

@@lon.2130 KL

[@yslee1401]

Try East Malaysia

[@NicholasCST]

@@leehyunsong7001 LOL

[@Waridi23]

being a parent to this gen z generation is difficult because the parents are from a generation that lived with struggle, hand to mouth kind of life. So their epitome of success is to have steady source of income. For most of them it doesn't matter what you have to do to get it, so long as it's not illegal then do it. The end justifies the means , so if you work seven days a week, it's ok, so long as you get the paycheck. They were traumatized by the poverty they lived in and this is a trauma response, to go for money even at the expense of your health, your social life, your hobbies, family, become a slave to the company, so long as you get the paycheck. This is especially the case for developing countries. Their children live in another era that are free from that fear of poverty, have seen the backbreaking work the parents did for money and have seen how their parents ended up. So they're choosing a different path, where they can have the best of both worlds and this is scary for the parents because this path is not predictable but it is fulfilling. Also, they probably have worked, have had the jobs and money but what is the point of the money if you can't enjoy it? what is the point of having money when you're getting out of your house when it's dark and coming back when it's dark? what's the point of having the money when you are having mental health issues because of the severely constrained workplace?

[@bknomad283]

Feels bad hearing the farmer's mom feeling embarrassed about their son's passion because of what others think. Maybe she should move to the city.

[@VibewithAda23]

New lifestyle in China ❤ so comfortable and stress free

[@passby8070]

wow great documentary !

[@JasonL527]

Mao Zedong would be happy his return to the country program lives on

[@hengongchua6250]

He has done his part for China and seeing how and what China has achieved today he can now rest peacefully.

[@livlim1738]

wowww! beautiful countryside❤❤❤

[@ivychua4091]

Wise decision 👌

[@ianpolo5673]

City life is making people toxic.

[@AlejandroPikoulasPlata]

You are right.

[@mansital1330]

I feel that bytedance guy

[@reena5892]

There is peace and happiness in country side

[@hunglam1241]

they need more of these communities and kind intelligent people to change their disrespectful materialistic society and grow the middle class.

[@Qiushishuo]

Disrespectful? Materialism? 😅😅😅 Are you expert to define and smear other?

[@adamsaciid4919]

who are you bro🤔and Who gave you the authority to judge?

[@adamsaciid4919]

who are you bro🤔and Who gave you the authority to judge?

[@solfh]

I really deeply appreciate how even in rural areas, China thrives in creating aesthetically beautiful places. From the architecture to nature. Is definitely an asset to live in pretty places and I am impressed their culture allows them to keep pretty things. On the contrary my country has an ugly city and very ugly countryside and small villages. I always say that going out pf your house and see ugly everywhere definitely changes your humor for the worst so people here have sht face every where. And when I live in Asia I was glowing. Trying to come back.

[@matthewona]

I find it ironic that during the cultural revolution mao forced the youths to work in rural Areas to learn from the peasants causing untold suffering and extreme inefficiencies. Past forward to today and youths are moving, under there own initiative and choice to rural areas, with new ideas and initiative to succeed in a capitalistic drive

[@kundalinimacaroni]

i wonder if this will help the birth rate?

[@dragonblue5]

The experience is highly dependent upon the people you are with… on the other extreme if you are stuck with toxic bullies your experience could become a nightmare in such isolation.

[@chochylindt]

Glad to see China's youth are finding alternatives to the city. Hope Wang Wen is getting the support he needs.

[@ratumelimatanatoto2488]

Basically creating urbanisation in rural areas. I thought they are going to work in the rural areas and leave the urban trappings behind.

[@alexeigoukov1109]

The examples we've seen are very different one from the others.

[@nancydonaldson3886]

This would be great for all countries keeping villages open to all

[@LimLux]

I would not live there because I'm not Chinese and because I don't speak the language. It looks beautiful though, reminds me of a combination of rural Germany and rural Japan.

[@virtuous8]

looks peaceful!

[@razjackson5825]

Great doco! I swear, there's no crystal ball but I anticipated this years ago. No one can predict whether this will become a large trend, but it's certainly a possibility. Fun facts: - China is less densely populated than either Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the UK or the Netherlands! - China's total land area is almost as big as the whole of Europe (9.60million sqkm vs 10.53million sqkm respectively). If you exclude European Russia, the rest of Europe would only be 6.18million sqkm, which would get gobbled up by China. - Starting from the end of the 1970's, China saw the most rapid rate of urbanisation, with the fastest and biggest migration of people from rural to urban the world had ever seen. But that would also mean that unlike in the West, which had gone through urbanisation in previous centuries, much of the population in China's cities still have close familial or social connections to rural areas, so it wouldn't be as difficult for them to 're-ruralize' or suburbanize compared to Western urban populations. - Not long ago in 1960, the West had 12 out of the 20 most populous cities in the world: the US had five; China only had two; and New York, London and Paris were each more populous than Shanghai, which was China's biggest city!

[@alexeigoukov1109]

Of course, if you take the average population density of China and compare it to that of the European countries you mentioned, especially the Netherlands, then it may well be that China is less densely populated, because the North-East and, more importantly, North and West have extremely low population density (but the North-East is still more densely populated than the neighbouring regions of Russia). However, if you take the coastal provinces, especially the southern ones, then things change.

[@alexiusboy]

I think its a lifestyle some Singaporeans shuld also consider as well instead of the hectic 9-5

[@chiTu-we8cw]

I hope young American people should watch this video so they can learn something from it . I am very proud of these young Chinese people and very happy for them to know how to create a better and happy life that they want . 😀😄🥰💯❤✌🙏🙏🙏

[@小猪世界奇闻]

我就是在过数字游民的生活，全中国寻找到合适的地方就租房长期住下去，想走了随时离开

[@Stoffmonster467]

I'm sorry for the young farmer and the missing acceptance for him - what would we eat without farming?

[@xpaperxcutx4588]

Chinese youths spend most of their young adult life studying and now they're realizing the rat race is too stressful and that there are no other options. The urban cities are getting extremely expensive and working 996 work culture is just unsustanaible.

[@mehkhasur]

Serene

[@Wongfeihong-ye9qp]

More people will move in, there will be demand for more infrastructures and it will eventually become like the places that they left

[@in4ser]

Fortunately, China has more wilderness than US or Europe at 42%. The US only has 5% including Alaska and Europe maybe 1-3%. Besides Cities will always have advantages due to connectivity and networking effects. It's just that they tend to kill population growth and urban living has always been a population sink even during pre-modern times.

[@CC-dx6bc]

Very good ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@nancydonaldson3886]

Sad the parents and society can't see the advantages of working in the country

[@joanweightman2275]

What a beautiful aspect of China! Lovely.

[@musafir123]

Good infrastructure

[@nancydonaldson3886]

True pioneers

[@waterbug1135]

Most in the video are new things. Idealistic. Will they last? And these are small things too. Will they scale?

[@olenagirich1884]

Incredible

[@jilldawson89]

Where are the children and elderly citizens over 60 years of age???

[@yojimbo3681]

This is rural China??? More like Silicon Valley tech bros' work-life balance dream.

[@flyfishing101]

I thought that's some small village in Swissland or Belgium. Wow, can't believe that's rural China. The real new China.

[@letzgow6110]

Since the 70’s and 80’s till the 2020 Pandemic has the world pushed for everyone moving to big cities for better career opportunities. When companies and people found that you can make money anywhere with your brain and laptop, this big city propaganda is not necessary and a slow paced more enlightening life can be achieved

[@swang_78]

Wow.

[@JingJao]

but you don't have as many restaurants and stuff in those rural areas. i prefer living in city.

[@bistander]

I am in awe (not in a good way) at how capitalism got adapted and accelerated to late stage capitalism materialism in such a short time in China, even surpassing America. To get married, you need car and house, that's not even a standard in Western countries. Its funny how there's now nostalgia tiktoks for people who grew up in the 60s, where they boast the simplicity of how they grew up. Yet the ones that moved to cities fully adopted materialism, and pushes that onto the next generation to earn more, show status, and buy more. And it looks like the next generation doesn't want that anymore.

[@alexeigoukov1109]

In China, if you live in a city, a private house is rarely an option. What you get is mostly a flat in a high-rise condominium, which may vary in size. Cars are not really a requirement either because China invests massively in public transportation: not only aviation, but also trains (often high-speed) and metro systems (trams, much less so), while there are also bus lines. If you compare this to the US, where, except a few cities like New York, Boston, Washington and San Francisco and maybe a few others, public transportation is virtually non-existent, which makes you car-dependent for virtually everything and everywhere, then China is way better off. The sprawling single-family-home suburbia of the US is not known there. What is true, however, that most Chinese have working ethics that surpass working ethics of many Westerners. This may be due to the fact that many people in China still remember extreme poverty and even famines, but also because these ethics get instilled into them since childhood: if you want to go to a good university, you've got to have good marks, and this is not a given. Spending your entire day at school and/or studying is typical. Thus, everyone competes with everyone.

[@hanshafei9858]

maybe it should be the standard here in the US so instead of watching porn you actually spend time to build a decent family

[@joshtep6784]

China is far from late stage capitalism in the Western sense. Europe and America's rush to industrialization included massive immigration from countrysides into ghettos and to the American continent, which never really recovered. The Western world has been unable to revitalize its countryside or fuel population growth outside of importing massive amounts of foreign immigration. China beat the West because they preemptively solved their connectivity and infrastructure issues first. China has a massive interior rural population that hasn't been mobilized yet and many of these documented people are based in already highly developed provinces. China is still industrializing because thus far, it has only been the coastal provinces that have really been taped into. China has learned to mobilized industrialized and digitized individuals throughout the country and America/Europe have not been able to figure that out. The Western hinterlands are blighted heavily and most have not seen major economic activity since Pre-WWII and during the age of expansion. America ruined itself with surburbanization and neo-liberal policies. China is blessed to be conducting its development with everything: industrialization, digitization, rural renewal, and urban rethinking.

[@qwertyutopia4667]

Need a car and house to get married are not new ideas. It’s just an evolution of marriage culture for 4000 years. You always needed to gift large amounts

[@vinh7ran]

rural life seems great and all, but one thing hasn't been mentioned in the video, what will happen when those "young" people get old enough that they start to want kids? Where will the kids go to school? I don't think rural school will be anything comparable to the school in cities, and homeschooling isn't really a thing in China

[@NewAgeRanger]

The countryside of China is not like typical countryside in other countries there are millions of ppl. Maybe not the 25-35 millions of people of 1st tier Chinese cities but 1-5 million so the infrastructure, schools, health care resources are there. Education for K-12 grade levels exist. The countryside of most other countries are not the same as Chinese country sides. Obviously, ppl will move to the city to enter prestigious universities, that is typical in any country. In America the top tier universities are in both major cities and small college towns of less than 100,000 ppl. College towns in small cities in America are self contained. These young ppl in China will be fine so long as they have some sort of income. Most of the ppl interviewed for this video are bright, resourceful, and well educated ppl they will figure it out.

[@yuli3186]

​@@NewAgeRanger Don't misleading them 😂. Country life never was ideal for family living.我认识的朋友里所有算是过过dn生活的都是不准备要小孩的，或者短期内没准备要的。国内医疗教育资源是政府按照行政级别分配的，不是说一群受教育高有闲钱的中产年轻人能争取到什么资源的。

[@vegamoonlight]

​@@yuli3186'Country life was never an ideal living lifestyle.' What a stup!d generalization. 😂😂😂

[@Stoffmonster467]

This may be in some countries, but not in most parts of Europe, where schools and universities are quite on the same level in city or countryside.

[@masegraye]

Tang Xinchen has the personality of a future billionaire.

[@musafir123]

In city too much crowd house with no air sky sun

[@ffnations]

Even in Africa Zim

[@JoviaLityJefiline-g2d]

When can Singaporeans go to the country?

[@ianpolo5673]

Overseas.

[@leehyunsong7001]

U wanna try living in Ubi Island for one month ?

[@yslee1401]

Well, there is Pulau Ubin

[@JoviaLityJefiline-g2d]

@@yslee1401 what kind of property can you buy there? Where to apply long stay?

[@JoviaLityJefiline-g2d]

@@leehyunsong7001 yes, got lobng?

[@kumartamil6]

Looks like Gujrat, India

[@angsern8455]

Grandfather : " they used to send us to the countryside to work so we learn their hardship" Grandson : " I'm going to the countryside"

[@MonkeyKing_1]

Dianxi Xiaoge is da Allure now she millionaire

[@jackwong230]

This headline seems to indicate every youth in China are ditching city life for countryside. Is that somewhat misleading?

[@musafir123]

America is next africa

[@zl6800]

This is great

[@KaderMosta-t5k]

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