China: What do young people dream of? (1/2)

What do young Chinese people dream of? What hopes and goals do they have? Do the grandchildren of the "rising generation” still believe in progress through work, and prosperity for all? Or do they have different values? In China, people rarely talk about their own dreams. There is the government’s...

42 min - World Affairs & Investigations - DW Documentary

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