The nation falls into chaos, everyone cries for escape! The Chinese Communist Party's review escalates, gradually blocking every aspect of Chinese life, that era has returned! Qiqi Bababa TALK Episode 971 20260916

This article documents the survival plight of the grassroots population against the backdrop of China's severe economic downturn. The blogger conducted field visits to places like Sanya, revealing brutal realities such as the wave of unemployment, the widespread closure of physical shops, extreme involution in industries like food delivery and ride-hailing, overcrowded job fairs, and a national debt-ridden population reaching as high as 920 million. It also points out that due to immense survival pressure, many workers are forced to work overloaded schedules with no days off throughout the year, and with the tightening of exit controls, society is facing a severe crisis.

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Hello everyone, welcome to Qibaba, I am Qiqi. The government and the people have no money, released, gave me fifty yuan, released. The old man and the police station, thank the government, thank the government. Hey, the government is so good, hey. It is hard to find the police when you have trouble, this saying is absolutely correct.

Do you feel that it is getting harder and harder to make money nowadays, whether it is working a regular job, delivering packages, delivering food, or driving for ride-hailing services, it feels like none of it makes much money, right? But I still have to tell you a piece of bad news: money is indeed getting harder to earn, and in the future, it will become even harder. I have been driving for ride-hailing for a year since I became unemployed last year, and now I can't even support the most basic needs of my family. Oh, at 32 years old, I feel like such a failure, with old parents above and young children below, I don't even know how to walk the path ahead. Brothers, don't say I'm lazy, in this society now, it's not just me who doesn't have a job, too many, too many people don't have jobs. Let me show you how many people are looking for work right now? Look, these are all people looking for work, right? In a while, another group will come, there are so many people. So don't say I'm lazy all day, there are plenty of lazy people. If the people are suffering, yet you are sitting leisurely in a comfortable office building, don't you feel ashamed? Please remember, you are a public servant of the people, receiving the people's salary, the power in your hands is given by the people, so you must serve the people.

Look at this, look at all this big money being thrown around, yet this trash can has been rummaged through eight hundred times before dawn. People keep talking about a monthly salary of 20,000, but I just want to ask, where is all this hatred coming from? Can't you share some with me? Forget about sharing money, I don't even get a turn to move a trash can like this—that's the reality right now. Have you noticed that after all this involution, salaries have gone right back to the 3,000 yuan era? Have you noticed that in many industries, monthly salaries are back down to 3,000 yuan, and in quite a few industries, it's even less than 3,000 yuan a month? How are people supposed to live like this? Look at it, there are just too many people looking for jobs. I never dreamed the unemployment rate would be this high, and I never expected the economy to be this bad now. There are transfer signs everywhere; shops that were still operating last year have pulled out their counters this year—it's truly tragic. This place is even more outrageous, they're even trying to sell the storefront.

I wonder if everyone watched the Spring Festival Gala today. Last year, this group of robots could only spin handkerchiefs and looked rather foolish, but this year, good heavens, they can already perform movements that 99% of people cannot do. If they can do all these actions, what can't they do? And here's the scarier part: if the jobs we are doing now can be replaced by these guys, won't we be eliminated? Isn't that the case? By then, won't it cause even more unemployment, more people unable to consume, and then more shops closing down, forming a vicious cycle? Is your city like this too?

Brothers, we can go out and deliver food again soon. Why aren't these people taking orders, what are they waiting for here? They'll haul you off to deliver orders. There are so many people, far too many people. With this kind of development in the future, if these delivery riders can't deliver food anymore and robots do it, what are these tens of thousands of riders going to do? Go to big tech companies? Golden storefronts that used to be impossible to rent are now all plastered with for-rent and transfer signs. In the future, stop calling them prime location shop transfers; if they were really that prime, why would you be transferring them? This is honestly consumption downgrade. At 9 o'clock, nobody is eating; at 9 o'clock, Paris Lobster doesn't have a single customer—everything has been ruined. Let me show you business after the Lunar New Year: it's desolate, completely empty, as clean as if paraquat had been sprayed on it. Do you think that once the Lantern Festival passes, business will naturally pick up? Based on my 12 years of experience running a store, I can clearly state that after the Lantern Festival, business will only get worse. Has the economic winter really arrived? Today I came here, to Tianxi City Plaza, everyone take a look—is there a single shop still operating? This place was once immensely popular; how many retail and catering bosses have invested here, how many bosses have harbored dreams here? Have your dreams come true? Have your investments seen any returns?

Tonight I have nothing to do, so I'll take everyone to see our Sanya. This is the Xinbao Street intersection, that's the China Telecom on Jiefang Road, this is China Mobile and China Post on Jiefang Road, and here is the China Construction Bank on Jiefang Road. There are also several here, and then there's Yueming Bridge, where some homeless people sleep at night. Over here there are several more, right over here, and there are many people here too. There are hardly any people on the entire street; it used to be bustling and lively, but this year the city's population has dropped by at least 200,000 to 300,000, and with far fewer people, the number of consumers has naturally decreased as well. But with still so many people, why are they flooding into the catering industry? To put it simply, because other industries are too hard to do, so they flood into the catering industry. And entering the catering industry has virtually no barrier to entry, so everyone thinks it's very profitable, but in the end, every single person who comes in ends up worse off than the last. These shops have been changing hands one after another since last year until now; wild fires cannot destroy them, the spring breeze brings them to life once more.

How intense is the labor market right now? Everyone is live-streaming to recruit people, recruit people, recruit people. In China, 600 million people earn less than 5,000 RMB a month. A man with a monthly salary of 3,000 RMB has the right to look for a wife based solely on his character, rather than whether he owns a house or a car. You must look at the character of a bottom-tier man making 3,000 a month, not whether he has a house or a car. Look at the scene at that job fair—if I didn't say this was a job fair, everyone would probably think it was a train station. There are so many people looking for work. Never mind getting noticed by HR, you'd be lucky just to let HR catch a glimpse of your back. Some people queued here for a whole day and didn't even get to see HR once. Others saw how many people were there and just turned around and left. Finding a job is truly so hard right now. They say heroes are as numerous as crucian carp crossing a river, but if everyone is a hero, does that mean everyone is just a beast of burden? But I want to ask everyone, put your hand on your heart and ask yourselves: have prices gotten cheaper, and has your salary gone up this year? To all the bosses running businesses and enterprises, did you earn more money this year compared to when prices were higher in previous years? I believe the vast majority of you did not, brothers.

Is food delivery finished? Are these delivery platforms going under, or is it because Chinese New Year is coming that nobody is ordering delivery? It’s one thing if the daytime is bad, but during the four hours at night, I only made 65 RMB, which isn't even enough for one day's living expenses. Usually, I buy fewer nice clothes for myself. I say I don't buy clothes, and the clothes on my kid—they're all hand-me-downs from others. It might sound embarrassing to say, but I can't survive anymore. I just dug out the jewelry from home and asked my wife to go sell it. This decision also had my mother's input, so I guess I'm still alive, and you can see my mother had a heavy heart making this move. Business is really hard to do this year. When it comes to selling goods, basically nobody is buying. The number of sellers is increasing, while the number of buyers is decreasing. Look across the street now, it's completely packed. They used to say only one or two families set up street stalls, but now people are fighting over spots and can't even get one. Business these days is truly unpredictable; it gets worse every year, and you can't even spot a ghost's shadow.

For 5.9 RMB, there are actually braised eggs and meat rolls. Let's enjoy the foresight—since you can't make money, you save money. Eat cheap meals for one year and you're done for, eat cheap meals for two years and save some money, eat cheap meals for three years and buy a suit, reaching the pinnacle of life. Awesome, 5.9! It really smells too good. Third Brother and I strolled from the first street of Xiashuibei, walking from the third floor down to the first floor and then to the basement. Out of all the storefronts in the entire shopping mall, currently two-thirds have closed down, leaving only one third remaining. Look at my video—some people ask, friends, what time was this filmed? Filmed in the morning, at noon, or at night? Filmed at 8:00 PM. Look, not a single one is open, all closed down. Entering Tianya Avenue, look at this road, during peak business hours, everything is closed down. Where are there still any people? Everything is up for transfer; never mind transferring, even if you give it away for free, nobody wants it.

E-commerce sellers are going to collapse in large numbers this year. Now it's not just a matter of price wars; low prices used to mean factories went to the frontline to fight directly, and some factories didn't even have any profit margins. The latest statistical data is out: nationwide, unexpectedly 9.2 million people are in debt. When you walk down the street, aside from the elderly and children, pretty much everyone is carrying debt. Where on earth is the way out in this life? I just graduated, having studied hard for 20 years, and when I finally come out, I break my head trying to find a job from 8 AM to 9 PM, working all month with some months netting 3,800 RMB. I am truly lost; I really don't know where the path ahead leads or where on earth I should go to work. I'm so tired. Does anyone know, can someone tell me what I should do? What should I do?

8.8 RMB, come on! 9 RMB on sale, selling not for profit but just to clear stock. Let me show you all how much my consumption has downgraded! My daughter is three years old now and wants to eat a sugar-coated hawthorn skewer. Hey boss, how much is this? Can I buy just one stick? Oh, okay. I originally wanted to film my consumption downgrade, but I never expected that this boss has also downgraded his consumption. In the past, he wouldn't have just sold me a single stick, but today he sold me even just one. It seems business is really not good.

I was looking for something to eat in the trash pile at the wholesale market today. It's actually okay, why can't this be eaten? I'll eat it today, it's fine, it's fine, no problem. What is this? What is this? These are edamame, the shells are rotten. I think this is very... this rotten one, no one wants this, it's very rotten. Over here, I can take some and no one cares, and it doesn't even cost money. Should I take two back? I don't even want too much. It's not bad, right, sisters? We can still scavenge, isn't that pretty good?

As for the bosses, they are all wailing and crying, asking why there are no orders. Oh my, we can't make any money. The employees are all wailing and crying, saying, "Oh my god, as long as I have a job, just don't fire me, I don't care how much the salary is." Everyone should know that inside the Great Firewall, some workers are now so afraid of being fired that they can even go 365 days a year without a day off, working all year round and maintaining an intense schedule of 12 hours of work every single day. When I actually saw this, I really couldn't even imagine, is this something a human can endure? 365 days a year, 12 hours of work every day, and it's high-intensity physical labor at that.

But faced with foreign capital fleeing, orders plummeting, and factories moving away, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has also started preparing to hold Chinese people back. And then, what next? They try their best to prevent Chinese people from going abroad. Even if you just really want to go on a trip, they will strictly control it, and things will become very, very tight. So, what do you think is going to happen to that land? I think it's self-evident, because this situation where the storm is about to break is already right before our eyes; it is already very clear and obvious. In the past era, you had to go through layers of approval just to buy a pot, and you might even have had your home inspected just for going out to eat. I think in the near future, that era we haven't seen before might appear before our eyes again, perhaps even far exceeding and "leading the way" by a long shot.