Why China's Poor Men Are Giving Up on Marriage, Kids, and Any Hope of a Future

China's economy is going through a quiet crisis, and the people living it are telling their own stories. In this video, we look at the real dilemma facing ordinary people across China today: salaries being cut while workloads double, one person doing the work of three, and no one daring to quit in a job market this brutal. We hear from a clothing salesman watching a mall emptier than ever, ride-hailing drivers grinding twelve-hour days for shrinking pay, and workers staying late just to keep an impression alive. Underneath it all runs a harder question that more and more young people are asking: in a world this expensive and this uncertain, is it even worth getting married and having children anymore? These are the voices behind the headlines — the everyday reality of a generation caught between rising costs, vanishing opportunity, and the pressure to build a life that feels increasingly out of reach.