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In Depth: Cost-Cutting Freezes Over 35s Out of China’s Job Market

By Zhang Can, Xu Jiayang and Guo Xin
2025年08月01日 17:55
Age discrimination is rife in the mainland job market, where an invisible ‘35-year threshold’ is hindering a growing unemployed labor force from returning to work

In March, Xu Yang lost her job after a decade working at the Beijing office of a U.S.-based multinational company. The software firm, caught in the fallout from rising trade tensions and U.S.-China frictions, slashed its China operations — laying off about 70% of its local workforce, including nearly the entire marketing department where Xu worked.

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