“On the one hand, the post-80s [born in the 1980s] generation are better educated than previous generations, and have more desire to express themselves; on the other, as social mobility decreases and the space to develop constricts, they are trapped by fi

Qin Yong, a columnist for financial news portal Caixin, attributing the growing malaise of the post-80s generation to China’s institutions, population size and industrial development.