The recent increase in sporadic cases of Wuhan pneumonia (CCP virus) in many parts of China, the official order to reduce the flow of people gathering on New Year’s Day holiday, and the recent issuance of the first cold weather warning after the winter, the cold, cautious, and wait-and-see atmosphere speaks volumes about the mood of most people heading into 2021.
Without the usual New Year’s Eve festivities, Beijing officials announced on the 27th that, in principle, no various types of temple fairs, large-scale mass cultural activities, large-scale performances, garden parties, gala events and other activities will be held during the New Year’s Day and Spring Festival in 2021. The annual New Year’s Eve light show at the Central TV Tower was announced to be cancelled; the night show and New Year’s Eve concert at Beijing Happy Valley were also suspended.
In Shanghai, since the 2014 New Year’s Eve stampede on the Bund that killed 36 people, there have been no more large-scale New Year’s Eve events, but mostly smaller celebrations organized by shopping malls or private amusement areas, so this year’s New Year’s Eve does not look particularly different.
Looking back at 2020, the suffering brought by the epidemic for those in employment and entrepreneurship is like the New Year’s Eve in Shanghai, nothing on the surface, but the cold and warmth are self-evident.
Ms. Li, a 25-year-old, university-educated woman, found a job at a public art gallery in Shanghai this year, selling books and related artifacts for a salary of just RMB 4,200, with a take-home pay of just over $3,000. According to her, because of the impact of the epidemic, the original department was restructured and some of the staff left because they were unhappy that their salaries had dropped by about half, so she was able to apply for the job.
But she is also very sure that if the salary is not adjusted next year, she will leave. Even if the rent does not have to pay the Shanghai people, this salary she thinks it is very difficult to live.
This year, Ms. Lee heard around a lot of job search tears, one of them has a master’s degree in a well-known media in Shanghai as a reporter for two years, this year, he was unexpectedly laid off, has spent 4, 5 months looking for a job. In order to save money, he also kept borrowing a friend’s house during his job search.
There was a time when the most impressive story in the Chinese workplace was that there were employees who kept raising their prices by jumping ship, but the trend has changed in the past two years. Younger people are not leaving so easily, and more people are cooperating with overtime work with no choice. The financial industry and Internet companies, once seen as high-paying, are no longer as desirable as they used to be because of changing policies and the economic environment.
As reported by the Southern Weekend in November, more and more graduates from China’s top schools are willing to enter the relatively secure system as civil servants or employees of state-owned enterprises. 2021 National Civil Service Examination applications closed with a record number of applicants, with 1.576 million people passing the qualification process.
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