Asia This Week

China's ÒJiu Ling HoÓ generation envisions the future (2013x8)

: 08, 2013

Chinese born in the 1990's under the one–child policy are remaking the country in their own image. Primarily urban and affluent, they have grown up amidst the benefits of their country's economic development. The Internet–savvy generation is accustomed to getting what it wants, when it wants. As such, it's been criticized as self–centered. The other side of self–centered, however, can be self–confident. The program profiles several "Jiu Ling Ho," including some who post works of literature to an online site and one who founded a video production company while still in college. For their generation, "conventionaláwisdom" is often little more than a history lesson.