I'm going to go operate an excavator! Jensen Huang has quit, there's a lot more to this than meets the eye, how will Taiwan respond?!! The latest content from the BBC is truly explosive, exposing the lies of the CCP! Qi Qi Ba Ba TALK 'Refreshing and Awakening 828' 20261113

Hosted by Qiqi, this episode first discusses the resignation of NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang and the controversy sparked by Chinese spy Huang Le using his identity to obtain chips and enter Taiwan. It also combines BBC reports to explore the case of a former British MP suspected of leaking secrets to a CCP spy. Subsequently, the program focuses on the severe employment and economic situation in mainland China, revealing the inside story of HR resume screening, the struggles of fresh graduates seeking jobs, the decline of the e-commerce industry in Hangzhou, and the housing price bubble, demonstrating the immense survival pressure and workplace internal friction faced by the vast number of young people.

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Hello, everyone, welcome to Qiqi Baba, I am Qiqi. In the past few days, I feel that the internet both inside and outside the Great Firewall has been in full swing discussing this matter about Jensen Huang. Then, just a short while ago, earlier today, he officially announced his resignation. I think this was actually him saving face. What I find rather strange is that over the past few days, a large number of netizens posting in Simplified Chinese have appeared to defend him.

And the reasons they brought up are quite strange. For example, things like "infidelity is not an issue," "was he fired for infidelity just because he is ethnic Chinese?" Or saying, "oh, he is ethnic Chinese, but look, once ethnic Chinese go abroad, they are still not united, as expected! Why doesn't everyone support him?" First of all, I think at this time we shouldn't bring race into this again. People who use race as a shield for everything are, in my opinion, the real racists. Furthermore, being ethnic Chinese does not mean being brainless Little Pinks; looking at things isn't just about taking sides regardless of the facts themselves.

In fact, regarding this matter with Jensen Huang, up to its current development, I think among everyone who pays attention to this issue, it has never been about his infidelity, but rather about his potential sale of chips. Because infidelity is a matter of personal conduct, a private affair—I think it's something between him and his family. Originally, to us, it was just gossip, casual post-dinner chatter. People wouldn't come out en masse demanding his head like they are now, nor would this matter draw attention to such a degree.

Furthermore, there is no such thing as him having to resign or be fired for infidelity simply because he is ethnic Chinese. Jensen Huang actually initiated the resignation himself. Before this, CEOs fired for infidelity—at least in the US, white people were by no means a minority, by no means a minority, and they were all from top-tier major companies. Right now the biggest issue, and the main reason why this matter has been followed so closely up to now, is that Huang Le might be a CCP spy, who perhaps approached Jensen Huang in order to obtain chips.

And as for Jensen Huang, in everyone's eyes, the probability that he is innocent is very small—that is, the probability of him being completely unaware is relatively low. He likely had some degree of knowledge, more or less. That is the real reason why everyone is paying attention to him and this incident. Because Huang Le indeed obtained a very substantial amount of chips through Jensen Huang, and even used his identity to enter Taiwan multiple times. Taiwan also has an ongoing process for informing the public about the follow-up on this matter.

First, I would like to ask about this Huang Le case: how exactly did this person enter the country? According to reports, he did indeed come to Taiwan in June 2024 and May 2025. Based on these reports, he is not a 'Category 3' Chinese national—meaning he is not a Chinese citizen who has obtained permanent residency in another country—but rather a Chinese citizen. Under what kind of business visa or review process was he able to enter Taiwan so openly? How can we prevent cases like this? He used a business visa to enter Taiwan, but he was actually acting as a Chinese spy. If we had known he was a spy, it would have been impossible to let him in. Regarding this, we will review the pre-entry screening, the monitoring during his stay, and the post-entry disciplinary actions. Well, we have already revoked his permit, meaning he can no longer come to Taiwan. It seems that the number of Chinese business professionals entering Taiwan via business visas is quite significant. I wonder if you have any data on this?

From March 2021 to September of this year, there were over 60,000.

So, I want to address this part: shouldn't there be some inter-ministerial joint investigations, especially for matters involving highly sensitive commercial secrets or national security? I think you should strengthen this.

Well, we have always had screening for individuals from Hong Kong, Macau, and the mainland, but this also depends on specific intelligence and leads. If there is no specific intelligence or lead, it might just be a general review. If there is specific intelligence or a lead, the review will be strengthened and become much stricter. So, it depends on the situation of each individual case. However, regarding the Huang Le matter, the Mainland Affairs Council had not received any relevant information before; this is certain.

It was stated this morning that the Mainland Affairs Council had not received relevant information.

But the core duty of our Mainland Affairs Council is to review from a systemic perspective: are there any loopholes in the export of high-tech products? Could such loopholes cause concerns for the international community regarding Taiwan? And will it shake their confidence in us? I think this is a bigger issue.

We will not go.

Although it is a bit like 'locking the stable door after the horse has bolted,' I think it is not too late, because everyone has discovered this problem and is now starting to think about how to avoid it. I think that is still very good. Because this Huang Le did indeed rely on the identity of Jensen Huang to obtain a great deal of convenience in Taiwan and the United States, and it was very easy for him to obtain information. If he really is a spy for the CCP, then he must have mastered quite a lot of information, and he has also obtained a lot of intelligence and the like.

Actually, the CCP's espionage work is not limited to Taiwan and the United States. I think Taiwan and the United States should be their key targets, but they must have spread out all over the world. For example, the BBC just reported on a British member of parliament—a former member of parliament—who leaked information to CCP spies, although this case has already been dropped.

This happened. It is this par this parliament that has been spied on. A Westminster espionage scandal. The legal case fell apart last year, prompting big questions over what really happened. We've tracked down and spoken to the former UK parliamentary researcher at the heart of this case. But I became the convenient fall guy for everyone. Chris Cash was 27, working in Parliament in London, and messaging his friend, also called Chris, Chris Berry, who was working for a company in China. Prosecutors say those messages contained sensitive information which ended up in the hands of a Chinese spy agency. Both men consistently denied wrongdoing. Chris Cash has given us these six thousand or so messages between him and Chris Berry to try and prove his innocence. His solicitor says they're genuine. There's no evidence of Mr. Cash being paid, but the pair do discuss sensitive topics. Although Cash claims much of it was all. Already in the public domain. I was immature in sharing it with Chris. It's more than immature.

Surety, though, isn't it, Mr. Cash? Is this recklessness? No, as I said, I think I was unprofessional and naive, but you know, I was working in an environment where this information was shared freely.

We've also been given voice notes about a mysterious meeting Chris Berry had with a Chinese official.

Keep this a secret. They were like, "Oh, he's he's seen some of the reports that I've been writing, and he's like, 'Oh, he wants to have a more more detailed cooperation.'" And I was like, "What the?"

So why did Cash keep messaging his friend when he knew about this secret meeting? Why did you keep sending information to Chris Berry even after he'd said he'd be meeting this person?

Because I I didn't think anything of the meeting really.

Last year, the case was dropped because prosecutors said the government wouldn't say China was an enemy of the UK. Some politicians were furious. It is MPs' offices that have been infiltrated.

Can I urge the minister to reform the Treason Act so that traitors are prosecuted and face justice?

The charges were brought under us. The case collapsed under them. Can the prime minister tell us what changed and what collapsed the case?

Chris Berry's declined to comment, but previously said his reports contained issues widely discussed and information in the public domain. China's called the claims malicious slander. So, will what we've discovered about this case prompt new questions about the actions of the two men at its heart?

So basically, keep this a secret as well. But the company that I was working for, they invited me to. They said there is a meeting in Hangzhou, and they're like, "Oh, tomorrow you've got a meeting with some a big name." And they were like, "Oh, he's he's seen some of the reports that I've been writing, and he's like, oh, he wants to have a more more detailed cooperation."

And I was like, what the.

Like, and I was like, "All right, fine." I thought it'd be interesting to go anyway. Like, not really intending to do anything like that. Well, I want to see what they actually ask, first of all. So, so I was like, "Okay, cool." I'll have a meeting, seeing as they'd already arranged anyway. And so I go in, and there's uh, it's like a whole long table with like fruit laid out, like way more than three people can eat, and then the guys like.

Tells me to sit down.

And then he just asked about, like, um, the situation in the UK at the moment about the Tory leadership thing.

And it kind of felt like it's like a.

A test.

And I asked them, like, oh, which which of these people of the candidates is do you guys want? And then the interpreter doesn't translate at first. And I was, and then the the main guy just shakes my hand, like it's time to go, kind of thing. And I ask him, I ask the interpreter again, and then they both start laughing, and they're like, oh, don't worry, there's plenty of, uh, there's plenty of opportunity to cooperate in the future. However, I cannot criticize the act of espionage itself, because every country in the world does this to some extent. I think it is a form of struggle. But I feel that as we move forward, the situation in this era is becoming quite complex, and government officials in some countries are just too easy to fool. Therefore, if state secrets are in the hands of people without vigilance, I think you would feel very insecure living in that country, because the whole world is really not very stable right now. I think it is necessary for government officials of all countries to raise their awareness of preventing espionage, rather than just being silly and blurting everything out.

[Video Clip · HR] A resume from Fudan University says they accept overtime, and a resume from Zurich says they want to be a "beast of burden" (corporate slave). Fine, this world has gone completely crazy. I'm screening resumes for an e-commerce ad operations internship again. As a first-time interviewer for campus recruitment, I've been screening and interviewing from over a hundred resumes in half a month. I sent out two offers, but neither candidate accepted, so I have to re-screen and re-interview. Media operations candidates from the top five journalism schools don't match; candidates from Renmin University and Fudan with finance backgrounds all have securities experience; did the Master's in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne apply to the wrong position? The top student in E-commerce from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with a Master's in Statistics from the National University of Singapore, has both marketing and data experience—this one works. Wait, he has applied 32 times, was given three interviews, and in all three cases, the candidate voluntarily gave up. Is he just here to farm interviews? People who don't want to come are crazily farming interviews, while those who want to come can't even get an interview. A 211 finance Master's student, whose self-evaluation says they are self-taught in such-and-such books, so they have an in-depth understanding of market analysis.

[Video Clip] Ah.

[Video Clip - HR] A Master's in Business Analytics from Melbourne Business School, why package a cable competition, a teaching assistant questionnaire survey, and a course analysis report into three internship experiences on here? A Master's in Architecture from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with no internship experience. I remember the last batch also had a 985 Architecture Master's with zero internships. Is this what they call a lifetime trapped by architecture? A Master's from the University of Southampton whose internship experiences include selling cards, selling coffee, and selling stationery. A Hainan University student whose skills list one item: Microsoft Word document drafting. Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand—three consulting stints are way too high-end. A 211 Master's in Asset Evaluation with five financial analysis internships; their career path was planned out clearly as early as sophomore year. How on earth did they know so quickly what they want to do in the future? After flipping through for two minutes, several student union presidents float by, but none are quite suitable. Let's go look through the already rejected resumes.

[Video Clip] Mhm.

[Video Clip - HR] This one is great. A Donghua University marketing major with brand and e-commerce internship experience, easy to schedule for an interview. Back then, it was probably rejected because they didn't know how to use Circle. Oh, come on, everything about Circle was written by me; I just hand it straight to them to run. Who needs to know Circle? Wow, Heart Town Art, I really want to do this kind of work too. I was wrong, I was wrong, I must have lost my mind just now. Why on earth would I want to work? A Shuangfei marketing bachelor's degree, has done marketing, has done BD, has done operations, this one is also good, schedule an interview. The reason for rejection back then was also that data skills weren't prominent enough. I originally wanted to hire a Circle-savvy intern to share my workload, but on second thought, based on multiple past experiences, interns have never reduced my workload. They do a part, I lose a part, and the company will just pile another part onto me. The company will definitely not let anyone have an easy time. These two hundred resumes are about to be fondled into oblivion by me. A Shuangfei journalism and communication bachelor's and master's, has done ad placement, marketing, and BD, this is also very good. This candidate went back on their word two hours after accepting the interview. Does a partner from Xi'an-Jiaotong-Liverpool University still need to come out looking for a job? A sociology bachelor's. A master's student switching to data science, wanting to be a data analyst like me, and ending up applying for operations. A University of Malaya English master's, has done ad placement and e-commerce. Actually, this one is very suitable, I wonder why it was rejected back then. Let me check, probably because they didn't know how to use Circle either. Whatever, I'll teach them in two minutes. This time I must recruit one of them. This crappy job where I don't get home until almost 12 o'clock—I really can't do this anymore. And to think I said I'd quit after making 100 skirts; I haven't even been able to touch the sewing machine in half a month. Haven't looked at it for two days, and there are 95 more resumes, but two students have already entered the interview stage. These ninety-some resumes arrived too late. Look at the University of Sydney, University of West London, Xi'an-Jiaotong-Liverpool University, University of British Columbia, Xiamen University, Fudan University, South China University of Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Fudan University, East China Normal University, Northeastern University (USA), University of Indianapolis, University of Glasgow, Lancaster University, Monash University—all master's degree holders, basically no undergraduate applications. University of Zurich economics, an appearance by the University of Su Warm Warm wouldn't even surprise me this much. The personal evaluation states: aspired to become a corporate workhorse at a big tech firm. Fudan University, wow, this hurts so much! There are four words on their resume, in red bold font: willing to work overtime.

[Video Clip - Working Stiff] Carry the brick! I'm carrying the brick now.

[Video Clip - HR] Indeed, I will never be happy again. How can an honest and obedient silly kid ever compare to peers with high educational backgrounds and strong obedience? With a background already this exceptional, they still have to resort to showing obedience to get a job. This world is doomed. Nankai University finance, Jiao Tong University public administration, even a foreign friend, Fudan University finance, East China Normal University journalism, Tongji University finance master's, Columbia University statistics master's, gaokao score 614. Do they even need to write their gaokao score on the resume? Direct admission to a Ph.D. program at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, thirty professional courses above 90 points, six honors and awards, each with a bracket saying top 0.1% nationwide. Gosh, looking at this is so stressful! Imperial College London computer science master's—all internships are in new media operations. Whatever, no regrets, maybe they just like it. A 211 journalism and communication bachelor's and master's; under self-skills, they wrote ten lines, familiar with all ad placement tools and products of current internet tech giants. Ten lines! Applied 47 times at our company. What? There's a line of HR notes below saying: this candidate's resume concealed a flash-quit internship of ten days, and all past internship experiences are very short. Really? The most recent internship lasted a total of six days, and the one before that lasted a total of five days. Honest college students are still looking for six-month internships, while smart college students write a five-day internship on their resume and run. How did our HR know they had a flash-quit experience at another company? Recruitment waters run too deep. I'm going to sleep, re-interview next episode.

It is one o'clock in the morning and I really cannot sleep. The size of graduating college students nationwide in the class of 2026 is projected to be 12.7 million, an increase of 480,000 year-on-year. Add to that those from previous years who have not yet found jobs, those who failed the postgraduate entrance exams, and those who have been laid off, and it is unknown how many people are fighting for this livelihood. Every interview opportunity requires passing through all kinds of trials; some kids have been to 50 interviews without a single job offer, while others graduated from 985 universities only to cast their resumes into the sea like a clay ox. But what I want to tell you is that this is not your problem; it is the times that have changed. In the past, a diploma was an iron rice bowl, and graduation meant a good job. Now, a diploma is merely an admission ticket. Your generation of kids is both the hardest-pressed and the most resilient. The anxiety you bear is something people in the past would never dare to imagine. The competition you face is something people in the past simply did not need to confront. However, I also want to tell you that the path is still there, it just needs to be walked differently. Uncle Bao has looked at so many stories of counter-attacks and summarized a few paths to give to you! First, do not stubbornly stick to big cities; Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen have many opportunities, but they also have the fiercest competition. Go to second-tier cities, provincial capitals, or opportunity depressions near your hometown; with the same educational background, you will be much more valued in a small city. Second, do not stubbornly stick to your major. What you studied does not mean what you can only do. Uncle Bao has seen physics majors go deliver food and later become regional heads for a certain platform, and Chinese literature majors go sell insurance and later become sales directors. The world is so big, what industry can't you work in? Third, do not stubbornly stick to saving face; any job that can make money is the ultimate truth, and being able to support yourself and survive without living off your parents is fucking awesome. Let's survive first, and then figure out a way to turn things around. Fourth, do not only look at the immediate present; not being able to find a job now does not mean you will never find one, and doing poorly now does not mean you will be like this for the rest of your life. You need to give yourself some time, and give this world some time. Remember, learning is something you must persist in for a lifetime. No matter what you do, as long as you are still trying, you haven't lost. Keep up with Bao's rhythm.

But what I must admit is that after resigning, you do not gain the joy of complete liberation that you imagined; it is just a brief alternation between breathing a sigh of relief and anxiety. I saw many posts recently talking about the 2026 graduates: if I choose to resign now, will it be okay? To be honest, as someone who is currently experiencing this, I think you must think it through before making this decision, because I am a 2026 graduate myself, and my educational background is a bachelor's and master's degree from a 985 university. People might think that's pretty good, but I still chose to voluntarily resign within three months while still in my probationary period. Actually, this shouldn't be something that appears in the trajectory of my life, because since I was a child, I have been a typical high achiever. From elementary school to middle school, high school, the gaokao, getting recommended for graduate school without an exam, finding a job, and finally joining the company, every step followed the milestone nodes of my trajectory. And I thought that after joining the company on July 1st, my working life would continue to run smoothly like that, but I found out it is not the case.

After job rotation, I was assigned to this specific department where I work, and its work is mainly private domain operations. It's actually not particularly related to my previous experience, so a lot of things had to be learned from scratch. Building on this learning, the part of the business I took over had already encountered some errors previously, which resulted in this business always lagging behind the company's other businesses, and it needed to be patched and completed as soon as possible. Therefore, every time a meeting was held and the leadership mentioned the situation of the business we are responsible for, I would become extremely anxious and feel a huge amount of pressure, because I believe that since you handed this part of the stuff to me, I should at least not hold the team back. So in the process of working, in addition to being in a state of learning, I would execute all the tasks and improvement methods for this gap proposed by the leadership, almost executing them on a one-to-one basis. But in reality, working overtime every day still isn't enough to get it done.

Then when I went to talk with my friends around me, including my parents and so on, they all said you don't need to take it so seriously. Work is not like school where you have to complete things on a one-to-one basis; sometimes slacking off a bit is acceptable. This metric is not determined by you alone, and it's not a one-person matter. But that runs counter to my last shred of sense of responsibility. I am not a person with a very strong career drive, but I hope the work I do is able to not hold the team back and not be stuck in a state at the bottom. So I began constantly fluctuating between "forget it, don't try so hard, let's just lie flat" and the mindset of "even though it's that bad, I still have to work hard to do it well," which affected my state and plunged me into deep internal friction. It led to the point where every day going to work afterwards, as I sat there, I would feel anxious. Then every day going to work, waking up at 6:30 and getting up at 7:00, that half an hour in the middle I constantly had to do psychological preparation for myself. But by the moment I went to work, sat at my workstation in the office, opened my emails, saw countless pieces of content with poor results, and thought about the pressure from leadership regarding our targets, I started to somewhat break down.

Then, after the idea of resigning sprouted in my mind, I first talked with my parents and told them that my current state was really terrible. My parents naturally said at first: your status as a fresh graduate is gone, your work experience is insufficient, and for social recruitment, you don't have any outstanding capabilities—what are you going to do? But I said I was really unhappy. Ever since I started working, almost all of my hobbies vanished. I care a lot about my body shape, but I gained 10 pounds from overwork-induced weight gain—just within a short month after starting work. I used to love taking photos and wearing makeup, but after starting work, I hardly wore makeup even once, nor took a single photo. I felt this work state was severely affecting my life, so I said I was unhappy. Then my parents said, alright then, we'll respect your choice; at worst, we will back you up and support you for the rest of your life. When I heard those words at that moment, I felt particularly bitter. It wasn't the kind of feeling where you could resign with peace of mind.

It wasn't a sense of security, but rather the kind of feeling that you're already in your twenties and yet you still need your parents to back you up, becoming a burden to them. But after talking with them, I still powered through for another week or so. What finally made me firmly decide to resign was the day I realized that many of the strategies I had previously configured contained numerous mistakes—mistakes that I admit I had already put 100% of my effort into verifying, yet they still occurred. I instantly fell into a complete breakdown. I felt this job wasn't suitable for me, or rather, something was truly wrong with my current state and I needed to step out; this was definitely wrong. So I submitted my resignation to my leader. But I have to admit, after resigning, you don't get the total liberating happiness you imagined; it's just a brief breather alternating with anxiety. I no longer have to be anxious every day about the strategies I configured or what issues my previous work had, or whether it could get good feedback results. But my current anxiety is: what is my next step, and where should I go next? But at least now I can nurture myself back to health properly, walk the dog every day, pick up the hobbies and interests I like, send out resumes when encountering suitable jobs, build up some of my skills, and plan my own time. I feel that rushing forward isn't necessarily the only way to not waste time in life; sometimes you also need to stop and slowly recharge the empty self from before. Only then can you move forward better afterwards, right? Alright, alright, yes, say goodbye to everyone, bye-bye, goodbye, bye-bye.

Oh my, bye-bye! Ah. I am Xiaoshan. I can't grind anymore—I really can't join the rat race anymore. I was born in 2001, almost 26 years old, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2023. In terms of job hunting, I have no professional advantage either. In the two years since graduation, I mainly worked as a substitute teacher in a middle school, consistently serving as a homeroom teacher. But knowing that I couldn't pass the official teacher recruitment exam anyway, I didn't want to exhaust my body inside anymore, so I resigned. Recently, I've been looking for a job all the time. Everyone says the current environment is bad. Before looking for a job, I actually didn't feel much. Truly, only after looking for a job did I realize: is the overall environment really that bad, or is it my own problem? I've been searching for jobs on BOSS Zhipin for several days. Actually, I wanted to learn operations. I worked as a livestream sales host for a few days before, but resigned due to a bad throat. But nowadays, e-commerce livestreaming and similar fields are big trends, so I wanted to find an operations position to learn. But I found I really can't find one—they all require work experience. Tell me, for someone like me who graduated two years ago, if I haven't worked in this field, where would the work experience come from? Or I see some clerical/administrative positions with salaries of only two or three thousand yuan, and...

If you rent a room and buy meals by yourself in another city, basically there's nothing left. Besides, I applied for many, many different positions; they either rejected me or I got no response at all. The point that makes me feel most uncomfortable is that many jobs—most jobs—only offer a one-day weekend, or even just two days off a month. Don't people need a life? I really can't stand this. I feel that if it's a job like this, I won't last long. Can anyone really tolerate getting up every morning to go to work? So I really appeal to everyone: we all need to advocate for working four days and resting three days, can we? I really don't know, nor do I know how my future path will go. I really feel like I can't afford to live anymore, unable to earn a single penny. Are there any family members here like me? Can you share your current state?

It's so heartbreaking! Do you know what the real situation in Hangzhou is like right now? As an e-commerce capital home to Alibaba, NetEase, Geely Auto, influencers, and live-streaming, the economy has deteriorated significantly. Friends of mine in Hangzhou tell me that the clothing business at Sijiqing has plummeted; compared to the bustling crowds of previous years, the Sijiqing clothing market is now desolate and depressed. Many houses in Hangzhou are hard to rent out this year, and there are far fewer people. At the Aux Center, very close to Alibaba, the daily rent has dropped to 1.4 yuan per square meter. Can you believe this is true? Most of the office space in the Xixi Yongle City area south of Aux is vacant, and some office buildings in large parks are even rent-free because if they rent them out, the landlords can at least save on property management fees. Due to the impact of Pinduoduo's "bad money driving out good," Alibaba has laid off quite a few people in the first half of the year, and the "pig farm" (NetEase) even laid off one-sixth of its staff—1,600 people—all technical personnel from the gaming department, with compensation of N+3, paying out over 80 million yuan in one go. Design institutes in Hangzhou are also optimizing. Even more terrifying is that small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Hangzhou have also started a wave of layoffs this year, involving departments with heavy personnel burdens and poor output, such as streamers, e-commerce customer service, editors, videographers, operations managers, and operations staff. Then, personnel from different departments are compressed; e-commerce businesses that were previously managed by platform, such as Tmall, JD.com, and Pinduoduo, are now merged into a single team. This situation is truly terrifying.

It can be said that the era of e-commerce prosperity has passed. Detective Li Ao believes that Hangzhou's overall economy is easily influenced by Alibaba, and even housing prices are closely related to it. It can be said that when Alibaba is strong, Hangzhou prospers; when Alibaba is weak, Hangzhou declines. As a second-tier city, Hangzhou has the rent and consumption levels of a first-tier city. I once lived in Wujiang Jiayuan in Hangzhou for half a year; the rent was very expensive, with a single room costing nearly 2,000 yuan. What I couldn't stand most was the cost of living—a haircut starts at 40 yuan, and a bowl of beef noodles that cost 12 yuan a few years ago is now 30 yuan in the city center, or maybe 25 yuan if you're lucky. The whole of Hangzhou gives me a feeling of classical beauty; the West Lake is very beautiful, and the city is clean and tidy overall, without as many dirty, messy, and poor urban villages as Guangzhou or Shenzhen, so the living environment is quite good. Jobs with two-day weekends in Hangzhou are fewer compared to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and the work environment is not very good. Apart from the internet industry, there are very few good jobs in other sectors, which is unfriendly to workers.

There is no sense of life, and many companies require overtime. The climate in Hangzhou is very unsuitable for living; it is truly hot as hell in the summer and cold as ice in the winter. Hangzhou can be called a culinary desert; over 90% of the restaurants outside are mediocre, and takeout is expensive and consists of pre-made meals. Furthermore, traffic in Hangzhou is very congested, although this has improved significantly. There are really many intersections with major design flaws, such as the Wenyi Road Tunnel, the Desheng-Moganshan Road section, and the Genxin West Road-Qiushi Viaduct; these places are congested almost all day. In addition, workers who bought houses in Hangzhou during the peak period might really be crying. Due to previous price caps on new homes in Hangzhou and the inversion of new and used home prices, many people were speculating on real estate, which led to a large bubble in Hangzhou's housing prices, and it is now in the stage of squeezing that bubble. Many speculators are selling houses in a panic, and many people who bought houses at the peak have seen their value cut in half. For example, the top school district housing, Wendingyuan, is right next to Zhejiang University. At the peak of Hangzhou's housing prices in 2021, the transaction price for used homes in Wendingyuan reached as high as 120,000 yuan per square meter. Now, there are plenty listed at over 50,000, and recent transactions have even appeared at 48,000 yuan per square meter. Such a large drop is truly shocking. However, Hangzhou also has its advantages; the Qianjiang Century City area in Xiaoshan is really comfortable to live in, and the supporting facilities are built very modernly.

Hangzhou has a large migrant population and many young people. You can be yourself as you wish in Hangzhou; you can wear eccentric clothes, and no one will look at you with strange eyes. There is also a group of people in Hangzhou who don't go to parties or bars; they just go to work and come home to cook every day, just to save the tens of yuan a day on takeout. Their lives are simple, repetitive, and unremarkable, with no social life, but they still choose to stay in Hangzhou to continue struggling because they believe that life will not let down anyone who works hard. Salute to every "Hang-drifter" worker. Would you still be willing to come to such a Hangzhou next year?

I actually want to know how friends view this situation. That is, if all of us—all of us—assume that we have just graduated now. I think about it, and then, the environment we are in is the current employment environment in China; what would you choose to do, or what kind of feeling is in your heart? Let me start; if I put myself in that position, I would undoubtedly be devastated. Besides that, if I calm down and think—or if it's a quick thought because there isn't much time for me to think—then I might say, should I choose a skill that allows for quick employment to make a living? That is, to immediately have an income and a job, even if it's operating an excavator.