This is also nothing new, as we have known for some  1  2  World Economic Outlook, IMF, October 2015. BIS central bankers’ speeches  time that China is slowing and that a rebalancing towards consumption-led growth and what the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has termed the „new normal‟ is under way.
That also means that employers are reluctant to invest in young people, so the incomes of this generation stay lower over their lifetime. What might be the forces at work here – demographics / changing workplaces / fiscalmonetary policy – that mean that young adults appear to be receiving little of the rewards of two and half decades of average economic growth?