Shenzhen Shanghai, none spared!? Complete collapse is already on the way, why does no one pay attention to what's happening in towns? Qiqi Bapaba TALK Episode 969 20260914

This episode explores the current social and economic situation, covering phenomena such as the strongest-ever clearing of cross-border e-commerce, long-term overtime and exploitation of corporate employees, difficulties in physical catering operations, and widespread consumption downgrading and mental distress in major cities.

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Hello everyone, welcome to Qibaba, I am Qiqi. Alright, everyone, my name is Chen Xiaohong, I am an ordinary Chinese person. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not equal to the Chinese people, and Xi Jinping is the greatest thief of the state in history. The colonization of the Chinese people by the CCP's bureaucratic apparatus is a matter for every Chinese person. Czechoslovakia once had a successful non-violent revolution called the Velvet Revolution. Power is not innate; the dictator's power can be withdrawn. As long as enough people join the civil disobedience movement, one-party dictatorship can be ended without relying on violence. I am just saying what Chinese people should say. I am not afraid of account bans, being silenced, or being arrested. What I truly fear is castrating my own freedom of speech first and handing over my dignity. Overthrowing the CCP and participating in this glorious non-violent revolution is a cause that our generation must complete. Future generations should not eat poisonous cabbage, nor should they continue to support vampires and thieves of the state like Xi Jinping. Special supply for cars, let me repeat, my name is Chen Xiaohong, I am an ordinary Chinese person. The CCP is not equal to the Chinese people, and Xi Jinping is the greatest thief of the state in history. The colonization of the Chinese people by the CCP's bureaucratic apparatus is a matter for every Chinese person. Czechoslovakia once had a successful non-violent revolution called the Velvet Revolution. Power is not innate; the dictator's power can be withdrawn. As long as enough people join the civil disobedience movement, one-party dictatorship can be ended without relying on violence. I am just saying what Chinese people should say. I am not afraid of account bans, being silenced, or being arrested. What I truly fear is castrating my own freedom of speech first and handing over my dignity. Overthrowing the CCP and participating in this glorious non-violent revolution is a cause that our generation must complete. Future generations should not eat poisonous cabbage, nor should they continue to support vampires and thieves of the state like Xi Jinping. The thief of the state has gone crazy. OK, it's over. Actually, I was going to... should I go over? Yes, someone else went to the Kuaishou platform to crash it. If this kind of thing becomes a trend, the CCP should be quite troubled. Although many people say he must be physically overseas or something, regardless, as long as this becomes a trend, the CCP will definitely be very troubled. But I still say, safety first. If you are physically inside the Great Firewall and cannot guarantee your own safety, I think it is better to be cautious, because the CCP is a party that is, or has always been, capable of doing quite terrible things. The most important thing is that their control over the entire Chinese society has not declined much. To put it bluntly, for friends overseas who can ensure their physical health and safety, you can fight a guerrilla war, that is no problem. To put it bluntly, they have to invest a lot of money in stability maintenance (weiwen) and to prevent these things, which is indeed a drain on them. But if you are still in the enemy's hinterland, well, you see, those who go deep into the enemy's hinterland are usually doing spy work. So, you must never expose yourself carelessly.

This is the work schedule of a certain new energy vehicle supplier in August. You can see that there are 31 days in August, and he worked 31 days. The average daily working time is 15.8 hours. On August 4th, the working time was the longest, reaching 17.5 hours. On August 19th, the working time was the shortest, but it was still 12 hours. Look above, his total working hours in August were 474 hours, and his total income was 10,428 yuan. On average, the income per hour is 22 yuan. For every hour he works, he can buy a spicy chicken burger. After reading this, I don't know what to say, because no matter what I say next, I will be throttled by them. The only thing I can do is read it again: his working hours in August were 474 hours, a huge joke. The accommodation and other welfare levels for workers at Xinyu's new factory are considered top-tier in the industry. So, regarding overtime, compared to two shifts, there will be more. My shift here starts at 8:00 in the morning, and on average, I have to work overtime until 10:00 or 10:30 at night. Is there anyone who can't accept it? They are all young ladies. I'm going, they don't limit gender, there are so many women, don't men need to enter the factory anymore? Can you believe it? There are actually factories where the time given to employees for lunch is only half an hour. I want to know, the person who made this rule, do you not eat lunch? Do you know how long it takes for our employees to walk from the workshop to the canteen? Do you know that we still need to queue up, go to the bathroom, and drink water? Do you think they still have time to rest? They can rest for a few minutes.

These shops have all closed down. Such a developed area, they have all closed down. It's too difficult. The lights along the outer windows outside the wall, those lights are also on, see? Looking at the night view outside, it creates an illusion. In fact, some are empty inside, just looking like they are open but not really. This one is the same, look, it's all vacant. Outside the window, it's all bright. You see, these future asset buildings, they will create this kind of lighting effect, creating such a beautiful lighting effect. If you look from afar, you can't tell at all, you really think the whole building is brightly lit.

Is there any logic left? Selling for 57 on the platform, selling for 27 on Pinduoduo, not counting shipping, not counting fines, minus refunds. 600,000 sellers have been reduced by the end of the year. The 2026 Shenzhen cross-border drama is more ruthless than you think. Look at the old sellers in Bantian, Fuyong, and South China City who have struggled for five or six years, now they are all quietly doing the same thing: clearing shops, cutting operations, cutting product lines, and shrinking the scale decently. Those who have lost heart just close the doors and push the factory away completely. In the past year, the number of active sellers on Amazon globally has dropped by 600,000. Calculated by regional proportion, 67,000 sellers have left from Shenzhen alone. Don't lie to yourself saying this is an ordinary off-season elimination, nor is it a short-term fluctuation in the industry. This is truly the most ruthless clearing in the history of Shenzhen cross-border e-commerce. Recently, I have browsed many industry forums and seller groups, and I found a particularly heartbreaking change. In the past, someone would post asking for the shop withdrawal process, "Hey, is anyone taking over the shop? I sleep well after changing careers." Do you know what the comments below were saying? Some were persuading them to hold on, "Is your strategy wrong? Why not try another way?" Do you know that this year, when browsing these posts, it is terrifyingly quiet below? No one is persuading anymore. Why? Because everyone understands that you can't persuade them, and there is no need to persuade them. Everyone is an adult, who doesn't have a balance sheet in their heart? If they could really hold on, who would leave?

This is my new office location. The team officially disbanded this week, and the company has become a real one-person company. There is no way, I am very reluctant, but I have been unable to bring or create profits for the team for a long time, or lead the team to get a better result, so I can only disband. If I drag it on, my partners won't be able to make money following me, and life will be very difficult. Our flexible employment group has grown again and again. This is my real-time shot in a KFC at 8:50 on a workday morning. There is not a single elderly person, they are all young people. This is what I wish for, I am really happy for everyone, everyone has started their own free night based on their own skills, and no longer need to work for others. My company closed down, news friends, are you playing or not? I can't report anymore, I still owe millions, are you eating or not?

Chicken, I also sent my child, why do I also plan to, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do. The fifth industrial revolution outside has already started, others have already gone public, and we even need to rely on our own voices to fight for a two-day weekend, still needing to carefully calculate how to avoid things during holidays, and talking about overtaking on a curve—whose car are you overtaking? You say a one-day weekend is already out of reach, and you still vainly yearn for a two-day weekend. Let me tell you, fighting for it might not guarantee you'll get it, but not fighting for it guarantees you won't.

I am talking about a catering business owner. If you can exploit your own employees to this extent, how good can you expect this kind of person to treat customers? In other words, with these employees being exploited like this, do you expect them to serve customers well? I believe the vast majority of catering business owners are like me; after watching this, no one would agree with them. Now, opening a store is not easy, and making money is not easy either, but this is not a reason to exploit others. I just want to say why China's GDP growth rate today is at a five-year high, yet the catering business is still hard to do. It's because in every industry, there are such inhuman people who, no matter how much or how little money they make, only stuff it into their own pockets. Employees work 17 hours and get a salary of 3,000 to 5,000 yuan. This is the life of ordinary people. Where do you expect them to get the money and time to go out to eat and consume? How could the overall macro environment possibly get better? I also appeal to all our catering business owners: no matter what, treat your employees better. The catering industry is a service industry, an industry of human-to-human interaction. Treating your employees unfairly and exploiting them will definitely come back to bite you in unexpected places.

Could it be that the airport's job positions have also been outsourced, leaving the passengers unattended, locking the doors, and going home off-duty? I thought the Shanghai GT3 racing incident was already outrageous enough, but I didn't expect an international airport where, before the flights even landed, everyone went off-duty and home. If you don't say the world is a huge chaotic stage, if you don't land on time, then I'm sorry. Anyway, the leaders are off-duty, so we're off-duty too. Actually, it's fine. Getting off work on time and firmly refusing to work overtime is the right thing to do. Who asked them to dilly-dally so much? Airlines will know from now on: if a plane is delayed, passengers might all have to sleep at the airport. I thought only factories had two-shift or three-shift systems, but I didn't expect service workers to be so invulnerable that they've involuted to this extent, having two-shift or three-shift systems too? Especially current milk tea shops, hot pot places, or snack vendors—are there 24-hour shifts all night long now? In the past, only factories had two-shift systems, and those catering shops basically only had early, middle, and late shifts, with the latest closing around midnight. Now, does doing catering also have 24-hour shifts? Oh, Xin thinks it's a matter of life and death now. Which heartless man wiped out all the KTVs? Wiped them out so that now, look, every place has no one. Which heartless person—there's no one anywhere. Besides, KTVs have been wiped out.

Living in Shanghai is very easy to drive you crazy. I don't consume anymore. What I want I can't afford, what I can afford I can't bear to buy, and what I'm willing to buy I don't want. I don't love fitness anymore either; the body shape I like I can't train for, and the body shape I can train for I don't like. I don't want to eat anymore either; good food I dare not eat, edible food I don't love to eat. I exercise regularly and eat a light diet, and my body is incomparably healthy, but my spirit has already entered the grave. Not to be laughed at by everyone, my Ahong braised meat might not hold on much longer. It's been open for less than two months, and ever since the start of school, that turnover has plummeted off a cliff. At first, it could make 5,000 to 6,000 yuan a day, but now it's 300 to 400 yuan a day. The business these past few days has been so desolate that it's not even as good as when I used to street vend. I am also very anxious, often unable to sleep at night, and I have been repeatedly pondering a question: is it the taste of my braised meat products that is no good, or is my personal management ability lacking? Why do some people always wonder why we always focus on these big cities like Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou? Why does no one look at these other county towns, or how second-tier and third-tier cities are doing? It's like this: if even tier-one cities can't live well, have endless problems, and lack jobs, do we still need to look at the situation in tier-two cities, tier-three cities, or smaller towns? It must definitely be an even more desolate and withered state. So the economy is like this: if even the economic center has no vitality, one can imagine what kind of tragic situation the regions radiated and marginalized by it are in. Alright, the above is all the content for this issue. If you want to support me, please join the membership channel. I especially hope to chat with everyone in real time during member live streams. That's all for this issue, see you next time.