A CCP insider warns China’s grim economics is escalating social unrest over widespread unemployment, inequality, wage disputes, debt, and stagnant mobility.

By Vision Times

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Summarized by Probe International

China’s economy is in decline, characterized by a collapsing property sector, foreign capital withdrawal, widespread business closures, and rising unemployment, leading to increasing public frustration. A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) insider recently shared an account online highlighting the grim economic reality, stating that “children from poor families have no path upward,” but the post has since been deleted.

A report by Vision Times explores at length the content of the erased post and the issues it raises. Highlights from their account include the insider’s assertion that social hostility is intensifying. With more people losing their jobs, the insider points to widespread anger: “These people are time bombs” he wrote, noting that police officers remind each other to be cautious.

He is said to have argued that aside from pension recipients and those with secure government posts, very few ordinary people care about “grand narratives.” “If you stop working, your income stops,” he wrote, adding that everyone is focused on finding a job.

Among middle-aged groups, he estimated that at least 30 to 50 percent are currently job hunting. The situation for young people, he said, is even worse, with a high proportion of neighbors’ and colleagues’ children either unemployed or stuck in endless exam preparation.

Anticipating the argument that the tariff conflict was initiated by the United States, the insider responded that the government should still bear responsibility for redistribution. “Can’t the government allocate more resources to ordinary people?” he asked. He asserts that expanding domestic demand and reforming distribution should involve shared sacrifice, “like going to war together,” rather than allowing generals to live well while soldiers go hungry.

According to the insider, the CCP has no intention of reforming the distribution system and is determined to “extract every last advantage.” He cited the Peking Union Medical College “4+4” program controversy as exposing this structural inequality, declaring “children from poor families have no way up.”

The insider also addressed innovation and distribution, stating that innovation requires freedom of thought and independent thinking. “If people aren’t even allowed to criticize, and any independent thinking is labeled heretical, how can there be innovation?”

Vision Times reports online responses echoed these sentiments. Some netizens commented that private entrepreneurs in China have little chance of survival, that domestic media offers “not a single truthful sentence,” and that without reform from top to bottom, upheaval from below is inevitable. The Times highlights Hu Liren, a former Shanghai entrepreneur now living in the United States, who predicts that 2026 will not mark the end of a downturn, but the beginning of a second phase of systemic economic rupture.

According to Hu, the collapse of real estate, the breakdown of local government finances, foreign capital flight, supply chain fractures, and the comprehensive spread of unemployment are converging.

“What the CCP fears most,” said Hu, “is people realizing that this is not a short-term difficulty, but the beginning of institutional collapse.”