Hello everyone, welcome back to China Undercover. Today, I want you to pause for a moment and picture this scene. From high above, the camera glides slowly forward. Beneath it, the land is no longer soil or asphalt—it is metal. Endless metal.

Across China, tens of thousands of brand-new electric vehicles sit abandoned in massive open lots, stretching for kilometers. What looks like prosperity from above is actually a warning sign of extreme overproduction. These EV graveyards reveal a system producing far more than it can sell.

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Can you believe this is Shenzhen? This city once symbolized speed, wealth, opportunity, and limitless possibility. Today, it feels strangely empty. Streets that used to be packed are now silent. Shopping malls echo with footsteps. Restaurants wait all day for customers who never come. I dare say that 90 percent of brick-and-mortar stores in Shenzhen will not survive this winter. Since September, businesses across every industry have been barely hanging on. Fruit vendors, vegetable sellers, clothing shop owners—everyone is clenching their teeth and forcing themselves to endure. Do you honestly think any industry in Shenzhen is still safe?

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“This uncle is picking up leftover food from other people’s homes. What kind of society is this? There are still people going hungry.”
Amid China’s sluggish economy and persistently high unemployment, a so-called “vegetable-picking frenzy” has emerged across the country. Many young people, in an effort to save money, are flocking to farmers’ markets to scavenge discarded vegetables for sustenance.
Images circulating online show participants from various regions, including Guangdong, Hangzhou, Chengdu in Sichuan, and Guizhou. Among them are university graduates, unemployed youth, and stay-at-home mothers.

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Many people think that when a physical store closes, it is only the problem of that one store owner. That is a big mistake—a serious misunderstanding. When hair salons, small restaurants, and clothing stores close one after another, your salary is not far from being cut. The collapse of physical stores is not the collapse of individual businesses, but the collapse of the entire city’s economy. This is a vicious cycle, and no one survives it. These places used to be full. Every shop used to be packed. Look at this cake shop, and then the Hong Kong-style market next to it—both are now closed. People used to say this was the best location. This area is by the river.

Signs of economic strain are becoming increasingly visible in China’s major cities. In Shanghai, once-bustling shopping districts like Xujiahui are seeing a sharp drop in consumer spending, with purchases falling to just a few yuan per customer. Streets that were once packed with shoppers now feel unusually quiet. For many residents, daily survival has become more difficult as economic pressure continues to build

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The Chinese government has recommended that farmers use natural gas instead of coal. As a result, local farmers have voiced widespread complaints. Many elderly people who were left behind in rural areas could not withstand the cold and have already died. Villagers ask how many elderly people in nearby villages have frozen to death and whether the authorities have ever cared. However, the Chinese Communist Party strictly controls public discourse. Discussions related to these incidents are banned online, and videos on the subject are ordered to be deleted.

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