{"id":2003971,"date":"2023-08-17T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T20:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-struggles-to-project-economic-confidence-as-it-censors-youth-unemployment-figures\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T16:30:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T20:30:43","slug":"china-struggles-to-project-economic-confidence-as-it-censors-youth-unemployment-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-struggles-to-project-economic-confidence-as-it-censors-youth-unemployment-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"China censors youth unemployment data, hindering economic confidence."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-struggles-to-project-economic-confidence-as-it-censors-youth-unemployment-figures%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2003971&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Chinese Officials Struggle to Project Confidence \u2062Amid Youth Unemployment Concerns<\/h2>\n<p>Chinese officials are facing a challenging task of maintaining confidence both domestically and\u2062 internationally while simultaneously\u2063 censoring data regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-texas-gop-candidate-ditches-pro-amnesty-thesis-champions-hardline-immigration-agenda\/\" title=\"Exclusive--Texas GOP Candidate Ditches Pro-Amnesty Thesis, Champions Hardline Immigration Agenda\">youth unemployment<\/a>. The recent\u2062 clamp down on underwhelming statistics \u2062has\u2063 prompted\u2062 the Chinese foreign ministry to provide an explanation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Some statistical indicators\u200c that no longer\u200c reflect the reality have been adjusted and removed. We have released more\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-race-baiting-media-sounds-alarm-over-white-violence-here-are-the-facts-they-wont-tell-you\/\" title=\"WALSH: Race-Baiting Media Sounds Alarm Over \u2018White Violence.\u2019 Here Are The Facts They Won\u2019t Tell You.\">statistical data<\/a> and promptly added indicators that people need \u2063to know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Record-breaking Youth Unemployment Figures<\/h3>\n<p>In April,\u2062 China \u2062reported record-setting youth unemployment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">figures<\/a>, revealing that 20.4% \u2064of 16-24-year-olds were unable to find work. These figures have continued to worsen each month, leading the National Bureau of \u2062Statistics to \u200dhalt the \u2063release \u2062of data. \u2064To address internal concerns\u200b about the state of the Chinese economy, associates\u200b of Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping have made efforts to reassure the public.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement \u2064made back in\u2062 February but only released\u2062 recently, \u2062Xi emphasized the challenges faced by the\u2064 country:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We should be patient\u2064 and \u200bmove forward in \u200ba\u200c steadfast manner. It\u2064 is quite a challenge\u2062 just to \u200cmake sure 1.4 billion people\u200d are fed. Then there\u200d are problems such\u200c as employment, [wealth] distribution, education, healthcare, housing, \u2062elderly care, and childcare. They \u200dare \u200ball not easy\u200b to \u200dresolve and they \u2063all involve an astronomical number of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Chinese\u2062 officials have accused Japanese \u200bofficials of &#8220;tampering with data&#8221; related to the\u200b Fukushima nuclear plant accident, their own\u200b approach to \u200beconomic\u200b data has\u2064 drawn \u2063criticism from \u200bthe United States. As U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lapd-declare-unlawful-assembly-at-echo-lake-park-city-moves-to-clear-out-homeless-encampments\/\" title=\"LAPD declare unlawful assembly at Echo Lake Park, city moves to clear out homeless encampments\">officials prepare<\/a> for \u200ba major summit with Japan and South Korea, Ambassador \u2063Rahm Emanuel praised Japan&#8217;s transparency and contrasted it with China&#8217;s decision to \u2062stop\u2063 publishing youth unemployment figures.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;[The Japanese officials] have been unbelievably transparent. Their efforts of \u200cbeing \u200dforthright with the public [are] a lot different than basically saying we&#8217;re not\u200b publishing youth unemployment anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>China&#8217;s economic data bureau\u2062 defended its controversial \u2064decision to\u200c exclude college students from the \u2063economic\u2062 report. NBS spokesman Fu Linghui argued that \u2062there are differing \u200bviews on whether\u200d students \u2062seeking\u200d jobs before graduation should be included in labor\u2063 force surveys and statistics. \u2064He \u2062also claimed that the employment situation is generally stable\u200b and that \u200bthe employment\u200c rate\u200d of\u200d graduates is slightly higher than\u200d the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chinese officials acknowledge the need \u2064to manage \u200d&#8221;social \u2062expectations&#8221; regarding the struggling economy. Chinese\u200b Premier Li\u200d Qiang emphasized\u200d the importance of fulfilling targets for the year, \u200denhancing endogenous momentum, improving social expectations, \u200cand addressing\u2063 risks and hidden dangers.<\/p>\n<p>This effort aligns \u2064with Xi&#8217;s earlier \u2063call for &#8220;patient&#8221; understanding of the challenges involved \u2064in managing China&#8217;s economy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We should\u200d first consider the size \u2063of the population and\u200d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-struggles-to-project-economic-confidence-as-it-censors-youth-unemployment-figures\/\" title=\"China censors youth unemployment data, hindering economic confidence.\">large rural-urban development gap<\/a>. A super big \u2062population can provide sufficient manpower \u2064and a super big\u200b domestic market, but it\u2064 also brings about \u200ba series of\u200c difficulties and challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> \u200cto read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>indicators to better reflect the current reality.&#8221; However, critics argue that the censorship of youth unemployment data raises concerns about transparency and the government&#8217;s ability to address economic challenges. This struggle to maintain confidence highlights the delicate balance between projecting strength and acknowledging the country&#8217;s economic vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2003972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}