China is currently running out of blue-collar workers. All those one-child-kids have too support two aging parents, and that is only possible on a white-collar

China is currently running out of blue-collar workers. All those one-child-kids have too support two aging parents, and that is only possible on a white-collar income. So nobody volunteers for factory work anymore. The party, hamfisted as it is, tried to force people back into the factories, by devaluing their degrees. Which then leads to - very reasonable protests- which are curbed in a unreasonable manner. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57409218 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57409218 This lack of blue-collar workers, and this water-head of white-collar workers (which is west-typical) and the economic desperation it creates, is also a driving force behind the uighur forced-factory-labour camps.