This photo taken on April 2, 2025 shows people eating a communal meal at a "youth retirement home" in Dali. - AFP
DALI, China: Wang Dong hasn't worked for months and doesn't plan to, whiling away his days at a lakeside town as one of a growing number of young Chinese "retiring" in the countryside.
Extended breaks from work were long unheard of in China, with its fiercely competitive office culture and where officials vaunt the blood and sweat behind the nation's rise.
