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From Guomao and Sanlitun to The Place, people have been posting videos. These videos show quiet shopping malls, stores up for lease, office buildings with their lights turned off, and apartments that are difficult to rent out. Finding a job has become harder. Physical stores are struggling to survive. Food delivery orders are declining. More and more people are feeling the downturn in Beijing as they see changes on the streets.
Tra nscript : Look at these ordinary people, these migrant workers. Life is so hard for them. They work so hard, yet they have
0:1313 secondsto sleep here night after night, using the ground as their bed and the sky as their blanket.
0:1818 secondsOn July 25th, a person filmed a large number of people from outside Beijing, sleeping on the streets near Beijing Railway Station. Many of them may have
0:2727 secondsbeen unable to find work for a long time and could no longer afford rent. Others may be daily wage workers doing heavy labor. They live daybyday with nowhere
0:3636 secondsto stay at night. Many people have noticed that in recent years walking through the streets of Beijing, you can clearly feel one thing. There are fewer
0:4444 secondspeople. During the morning rush hour, the subway is no longer packed like before. Shopping areas that used to be so crowded in the evening now look
0:5252 secondsempty. Even places once filled with crowds, such as Beijing subway, Beijing railway station, and the airport, have seen much thinner crowds.
1:051 minute, 5 secondsIt's not just one place. Beijing feels empty now. What time is it? There's nobody even in the subway, the whole station. It's just the three of us.
1:161 minute, 16 secondsIt's normal that you don't see many people. First of all, more people have left Beijing. That's a fact. As for whether there are fewer people, just
1:241 minute, 24 secondslook at the subway because there are really far fewer people taking the subway. Now, look how quiet it is. There isn't a
1:311 minute, 31 secondssingle person here. Yesterday, I took the subway at 8:00 a.m. and actually got a seat. Can you imagine that? During the
1:381 minute, 38 secondsmorning rush hour in Beijing, getting a seat was impossible. And now, whether it's the morning or evening rush hour, driving is almost never stuck in
1:461 minute, 46 secondstraffic. Before, the roads would be full of red lights and traffic jams.
1:521 minute, 52 secondsNo way. It's now 12:00 p.m., which is usually the busiest time for flights.
1:561 minute, 56 secondsWe're in the international arrivals hall at Dashing Airport, and it looks like there's only one flight arriving. Have people stopped coming to Beijing?
2:072 minutes, 7 secondsThis time, the feeling is that Beijing Railway Station is really quiet. The station square is still the same square.
2:142 minutes, 14 secondsIt is still clean and well-maintained, but there just aren't many people anymore.
2:202 minutes, 20 secondsI'm at Beijing's South Railway Station right now and it's almost completely empty. I've been traveling for work for many years and this is the first time
2:272 minutes, 27 secondsI've ever seen it this empty. From Guau in San Leun to the palace, people have been posting videos. These videos show
2:342 minutes, 34 secondsquiet shopping malls, stores up for lease, office buildings with their lights turned off, and apartments that are difficult to rent. Finding a job has
2:422 minutes, 42 secondsbecome harder. Physical stores are struggling to survive. Food delivery orders are declining. More and more people are feeling the downturn in
2:492 minutes, 49 secondsBeijing as they see changes on the streets.
2:552 minutes, 55 secondsThis is Beijing Wuang Tiya Auto Parts City. Look at what this once busy automobile industry has become. Almost all the shops are empty.
People ask why Mun's economy can't develop. It's not even 10 p.m. yet.
3:093 minutes, 9 secondsLook, this is the busiest pedestrian shopping street in Mun. This is Miun.
3:133 minutes, 13 secondsThe Gulo supermarket is already completely dark before 10 p.m.
3:173 minutes, 17 secondsEverything is closed. In the past, during summer, restaurants here would stay open until late at night. Are there no more late night food places now? Has the economy really become this bad?
3:273 minutes, 27 secondsBeijing was once a place where countless young people came to chase their dreams.
3:313 minutes, 31 secondsIn recent years, an increasingly clear trend has emerged. Many migrant workers who spent years building their lives in Beijing have gradually chosen to leave.
3:413 minutes, 41 secondsI'm 37 years old. I'm a single woman who spent 7 years living and working in Beijing. This is the apartment I rented
3:483 minutes, 48 secondsnear the East Fifth Rainroad. The rent was 4,300 yen a month. I also have a little cat, but has been with me for 4
3:563 minutes, 56 secondsyears. I'm taking it with me and returning to my small hometown where life feels warmer and more full of human connections. My luggage and the moving
4:044 minutes, 4 secondstruck cost a total of 2,463 yen. That was the entire cost of moving. I've gotten used to living alone. Back home,
4:124 minutes, 12 secondsI rented a two-bedroom apartment of more than 80 square meters for about 700 yen a month. I cleaned it up myself, and now I'm about to start a new life.
4:244 minutes, 24 secondsI've noticed that more and more office buildings in Beijing CBD are turning off their lights at night. The workplace competition in Beijing has become
4:324 minutes, 32 secondsextremely intense. Among the people I know who work in Beijing, there are only two kinds left. those who are unemployed and those who are exhausted by their
4:414 minutes, 41 secondsjobs. From a company perspective, layoffs at major companies have become normal. For small and medium-sized
4:484 minutes, 48 secondsbusinesses, simply managing to survive is already considered a victory. These days, working anywhere is not easy. Some
4:564 minutes, 56 secondspeople are even doing the work of several employees by themselves. Some companies are also delaying salary payments.
5:045 minutes, 4 secondsThese are personal observations from individuals and do not represent the entire city of Beijing. For many ordinary workers, the rising cost of
5:125 minutes, 12 secondsliving has become one of the most direct reasons for leaving Beijing. In Beijing, rent often takes up a large portion of people's income, especially in central
5:215 minutes, 21 secondsareas. Housing costs have remained high for years. To reduce pressure of high costs, many people have no choice but to live beyond the fifth ring road or even in suburban areas.
5:325 minutes, 32 secondsTheir daily commute can easily take 2 to three hours. Over time, this takes a toll on their health. Besides rent,
5:395 minutes, 39 secondseveryday expenses such as food, transportation, and social activities are also high. Even with a middle-le salary, after paying all fixed expenses, little is left for spending and saving.
5:505 minutes, 50 secondsIt's not just Beijing. As China's economy continues to slow, the former glamour of Shanghai is also fading.
5:595 minutes, 59 secondsThis is the north side of New World Plaza. Look at how this restaurant area has gone from prosperity to decline in just a few years. It used to be packed
with people during lunch. Look, this restaurant is closed now. Tang Wu Hua, a Chaos Cuisine restaurant, is closed,
6:146 minutes, 14 secondstoo. It used to be very busy. This restaurant, Jen Ao, posted a notice saying it closed voluntarily because of
6:216 minutes, 21 secondsserious unpaid rent, management fees, electricity, and water bills. The shop next door has also shut down. It's
6:286 minutes, 28 secondslunchtime now. 11:40 a.m. Friday, July 24th. Look, there are hardly any customers here. I came to La Shangji for
6:356 minutes, 35 secondslunch. This rice restaurant has closed, too. A few years ago, La Shang Gi had long lines stretching all the way over there. Now, the customer traffic is nowhere near what it used to be.
6:506 minutes, 50 secondsThis is unbelievable. Almost all the stores in Moho more have closed. On the first floor, the open rate is only
6:596 minutes, 59 secondsprobably about uh 1/5if. Most of the floor is basically shut down. This place used to be pretty good. There was a
7:057 minutes, 5 secondsbookstore upstairs. In summer, people would come here to enjoy the air conditioning, have coffee, or eat a meal. But how did it become like this?
7:147 minutes, 14 secondsOn July 9th, a person posted a video saying that Shanghai's Moho Mall was almost finished. Moho Mall is a landmark
7:217 minutes, 21 secondsshopping spot in Jingan district. It combines shopping, offices, and apartments. It focuses on youth culture,
7:287 minutes, 28 secondsfashion, and city life. Once one of the most important trendy areas in Shanghai, it has now become unusually quiet.
7:417 minutes, 41 secondsThere's nobody left in Shanghai's foreigner street. It used to be so lively. This place is so empty now.
7:477 minutes, 47 secondsBefore you couldn't even get a reservation here. There wasn't a single available seat. Used to be packed with people. But now, oh my god, there's
7:557 minutes, 55 secondsnobody here. Is this really Shanghai's foreigner street? How did it end up like this? I used to come here for dinner and had to book a table in advance. Now, nobody comes anymore.
8:128 minutes, 12 secondsShanghai's foreigner street has lost its glory. Used to look like United Nations cafeteria. Now it feels like a forgotten
8:188 minutes, 18 secondspalace. And all of this happened just after one pandemic. What was it like before? It was always crowded. On weekends, people had to wait for tables.
8:288 minutes, 28 secondsEven on weekdays, there were plenty of customers. To use a common English phrase, it was a sea of people. But now
8:358 minutes, 35 secondsit can hardly see anyone. There are more waiters than customers inside the restaurants. How crazy was it before?
8:428 minutes, 42 secondsBeer and barbecue filled the whole street. Now the signs are still there but the spirit is gone. Did all the foreigners leave after the pandemic or
8:508 minutes, 50 secondshave people simply stopped coming out and gathering like they used to?
8:538 minutes, 53 secondsRecently a vlogger interacted with many people online and said that the decline of Shanghai's Green Lin Binfen City Mall
9:009 minutesin Hangpu district was heartbreaking. It used to be crowded with visitors, but now it's almost on the verge of closing down. Just a few years ago, it would
have been hard to believe, but now it has become a reality.
9:159 minutes, 15 secondsThis is Greenland Binfen City in Ching Pu. The exterior actually still looks pretty good, but unfortunately the tenant situation is not great. Today is
9:239 minutes, 23 secondsthe weekend and I noticed there are hardly any people outside. I just walked around inside too and there really aren't many people. There's a nice no
9:309 minutes, 30 secondsstore here and the shops around the outside still look pretty nice from the outside. On a sunny day, this place actually looks quite good. It's still
9:389 minutes, 38 secondsvery hot outside today, but after coming in, I feel the air conditioning on the first floor isn't working very well. The first floor is completely quiet. The
9:469 minutes, 46 secondslights on the second and third floors are already dim, which means some electricity has been turned off. There are only a few people around, and there's hardly anyone using the
9:549 minutes, 54 secondsescalators. This is a basement floor, the food area, but has become very quiet. It's a little dark up ahead, and there are barely any people inside KFC.
10:0210 minutes, 2 secondsIt feels like this one store is keeping the area going. Look, there's nobody in front either. Outside BD, there's a sunken plaza. I think the design is
10:1110 minutes, 11 secondsactually quite good. It's a shame nobody comes here. Otherwise, I would even like to order some snacks and sit here. But one thing I think Greenland did well is
10:1910 minutes, 19 secondsthat even though it's already struggling financially, all of its elevators are still running. Some malls shut down certain elevators to save electricity when the leasing situation gets bad.
10:2810 minutes, 28 secondsThis is a second floor. Walking around here, I haven't seen a single store that is open. There may be some further ahead. The location is actually pretty
10:3610 minutes, 36 secondsgood. It's right outside Chingpoo Shing Chan Station on Metro Line 17. This is a old part of Ching Pu where many older residents live.
10:4610 minutes, 46 secondsThis is the second floor of Greenland Binfen City. You can see that it's actually a very small mall. Many of the shops ahead are empty. It looks like
10:5410 minutes, 54 secondsthere's an internet cafe that's still open. This is the third floor. There's a KTV here, and some people are going in during the daytime. The other shops seem
11:0211 minutes, 2 secondsto be mostly education and training businesses, but many of them are still vacant. Yu Garden City God Temple, one of Shanghai's most iconic tourist
11:1011 minutes, 10 secondslandmarks, is also experiencing a decline in visitors. A local resident named Mr. Song visited the area and said that compared with the same period in
11:1811 minutes, 18 seconds2019, the number of visitors has fallen by about 2/3. He said the scenes of people squeezing through the streets are
11:2511 minutes, 25 secondsgone. During the lunch peak, almost no customers are entering the restaurants.
11:2911 minutes, 29 secondsMr. Song said that even in places where there are crowds, very few people are actually spending money. Most visitors are simply there to check in, take
11:3711 minutes, 37 secondsphotos, and leave. The most striking scene was a street that was once always crowded, now has not a single person in sight. Even in areas where there are
11:4511 minutes, 45 secondsstill visitors, a closer look shows that 80% to 90% of people are only walking around and not buying anything. A Shanghai resident said many industries in the city are facing difficulties.
11:5511 minutes, 55 secondsIt's become harder to make money. When everyone is struggling to earn income, consumption naturally declines. Business owners can't make money. Street shops
are closing one after another, and even the city's most popular shopping districts are showing clear signs of consumption downturn. Consumption data
12:1112 minutes, 11 secondsalso confirmed this trend. In the first half of 2026, China's GDP grew by 4.7%, but total retail sales of consumer goods
12:2012 minutes, 20 secondsincreased by only 1.3% year-onear. The contribution of consumption to GDP growth fell from 52% in 2025 to 44.68%.
12:3012 minutes, 30 secondsThe divide within cities has become especially striking. Retail sales at branded specialty stores plunged 8.7% yearonear while department store sales fell 2.1%.
12:4112 minutes, 41 secondsMeanwhile, convenience stores and supermarkets, which focus on extreme value for money, saw sales rise by 6.6%
12:4812 minutes, 48 secondsand 3.8% respectively. Behind this shift is a collapse of the wealth illusion among middle-income groups. Young people are now cutting back wherever possible.
12:5712 minutes, 57 secondsThey only spend money on what they consider absolutely necessary. The job market in Shanghai is even more challenging. A front desk position
13:0413 minutes, 4 secondsoffering a monthly salary of 4,500 yen, received 900 rums in just 2 days. Some people have been searching for work for
13:1213 minutes, 12 seconds3 months and attended more than 20 interviews. It still received no offers.
13:1613 minutes, 16 secondsThose over the age of 40 are being increasingly pushed to the margins. This suggests that the middle class is beginning to decline. One woman said,
13:2413 minutes, 24 seconds"The job market in Shanghai is completely collapsed. Do you know what happened to people in Shanghai who have been unemployed for more than a year, 16
13:3113 minutes, 31 secondsmonths, 492 job applications, and zero interview invitations. When I first quit my job, I only felt relieved. I thought
13:3813 minutes, 38 secondsthis was a fresh start in life. But soon, freedom became another kind of suffering. I finally gathered the courage to look for a job only to be
13:4613 minutes, 46 secondscrushed by reality. I kept scrolling through job apps until I became numb.
13:5013 minutes, 50 secondsWhen I received the 100th, 200th, and 300th message that was seen but never answered, I finally broke down. I started to fear phone calls from my
13:5813 minutes, 58 secondsfamily. I feared friends asking how I was doing. I began questioning why I couldn't do anything right. My rent expires in August. I either have to find a way out or go back to my hometown.
14:0814 minutes, 8 secondsEconomist Wong Dupe said in a widely circulated online speech that the era of China street economy is over. He said that Nanjing Road in Shanghai, the
14:1714 minutes, 17 secondscountry's largest city, was once its most luxurious commercial street. But recently, many distinctive stores and well-known brands along Nanjing Road
14:2514 minutes, 25 secondshave been closing down one after another. Wong said this reflects not only economic weakness, but also a necessary shift in consumption patterns
14:3314 minutes, 33 secondsand business models. Consumer spending has moved from offline stores to online platforms while more and more large shopping complexes have been built. As a
14:4114 minutes, 41 secondsresult, the decline of traditional street-based commerce has become almost unavoidable. It would be strange if Nanjing Road did not decline. If even
14:4914 minutes, 49 secondsBeijing and Shanghai, the political and economic centers of China, are showing signs of decline, conditions in other regions, are naturally even more
14:5614 minutes, 56 secondsdifficult. More and more people living in major cities, share similar feeling.
15:0015 minutesThe streets are no longer as lively as before. Shopping malls have fewer visitors. Restaurants no longer have long lines. Office buildings have more
empty space. Even subways that were once unbearably crowded now often have empty seats during many periods. Where did all the people go? Where did everyone
15:1615 minutes, 16 secondsdisappear to? The Chinese Communist Party uses changes in transportation habits to cover up reality of urban decline. Facing these increasingly
15:2515 minutes, 25 secondscommon questions, some articles from mainland Chinese media have offered explanations. People have switched to electric vehicles. They started riding ebikes. They began working remotely.
15:3515 minutes, 35 secondsCompanies have moved to suburbs. Cities have entered a multi-center development model. These factors do exist to some extent. But the biggest problem is that
15:4415 minutes, 44 secondsthey have been deliberately exaggerated to hide a much heavier reality. The real question is not why some people have stopped taking the subway. The real
15:5115 minutes, 51 secondsquestion is why more and more people no longer need to commute everyday. In the past, the reason Beijing's morning and evening rush hours were so crowded was
15:5915 minutes, 59 secondsbecause large numbers of young people had stable jobs. Behind the crowded subway system was the large number of companies, offices, commercial activities, and job opportunities.
16:0916 minutes, 9 secondsToday, the subway is no longer as crowded as before. Of course, some people may have switched to driving or riding electric bikes, but these
16:1616 minutes, 16 secondsexplanations cannot answer other questions. Why are shopping malls also becoming quieter? Why are office vacancy rates rising? Why is the restaurant
16:2516 minutes, 25 secondsindustry becoming increasingly difficult? Why are both buses and subways seeing fewer passengers? Why are so many young people leaving first tier
16:3216 minutes, 32 secondscities? Some people online have analyzed that there cannot be just one reason behind quieter cities. But when rising unemployment, corporate layoffs, weak
16:4016 minutes, 40 secondsconsumption, a declining property market, population outflow, empty office buildings, and falling public transportation usage all happen at the same time. It points to a deeper change.
16:5116 minutes, 51 secondsIt means fewer stable jobs are available. More young people are being forced to leave. Companies are becoming reluctant to expand. Residents are
16:5916 minutes, 59 secondscutting back on spending. The momentum behind real estate and land-based government revenue is weakening. It also shows that major Chinese cities are losing their strength.
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