Ditching the rat race, Chinese millennials choose to 'lie flat'

Guo sits at the balcony of his home in Dali in southwestern China's Yunnan province having chosen to reject grueling careers for a "low-desire life." Photos: AP

Fed up with work stress, Guo Jianlong quit a newspaper job in Beijing and moved to China’s mountain southwest to "lie flat.”

Guo joined a small but visible handful of Chinese urban professionals who are rattling the ruling Communist Party by rejecting grueling careers for a "low-desire life." That is clashing with the party's message of success and consumerism as its celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding.