As rural content booms online, Lin Yangduo has gone viral promoting village tourism and local products with a formula that makes him deeply uncomfortable.
For a generation losing faith in any single career path, money has become a tool for managing risk, claiming autonomy, and building a life on their own terms.
Wu Tongyu
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Sociologist
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Wu Tongyu
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Sociologist
In the country’s less-developed hinterlands, labeling data to train AI models has become a poverty-alleviation tool.
For 15 years, Chinese farmer Cheng Yunfu had sold cheap hand-pulled noodles at a local fair — then a trending video sent his life spinning out of control.
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