China’s middle class is stressed. Can its growing mental health industry lend a helping hand?


In the past few years, psychological counsellor Huang Jing has watched her business thrive.

With any other industry, that would be cause for celebration – China has made private enterprise a priority as it pushes for sustained economic recovery – but a higher demand for mental health services carries other, more troubling implications.

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