China will no longer publish (bad) youth unemployment data
Drastically worsening youth unemployment numbers in China have caused the government to temporarily — or perhaps permanently — stop their publication.
Barry van Wyk
Barry van Wyk spent eight years in China studying Chinese in Tianjin and working as a consultant and project manager in Beijing. He holds a Master of Arts in economic history from the London School of Economics (2005).
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