“Young people like me are forced to accept the reality,” she said. “I feel helpless about the future. I can only resort to lying flat.” However, nearly three in five respondents said they ...

“I am bailan-ing. Leave me alone,” read a note posted on the door of 28-year-old Yan Jie’s bedroom. Yan, who shares a flat with a colleague in suburban Shanghai, was mocking himself, saying ...

By now, lying flat has been adapted by the Chinese state media and is painted in a different light from how it initially emerged when it was used by young people to address their views on life. What ...

In a bid to combat bureaucratic sluggishness, some regions in China have intensified efforts to crack down on officials deemed "lying flat" — a term used to describe civil servants who are ...

“Lying flat is not to be advised, and to win (the COVID battle) while lying flat is not possible,” People’s Daily wrote on Wednesday. China has been grappling with a COVID resurgence after ...

Fed up with work stress, Guo Jianlong quit a newspaper job in Beijing and moved to China’s mountain southwest to "lie flat.” Guo joined a small but visible handful of Chinese urban ...