Nowadays, lots of words like "ant tribe", "dwelling narrowness" are famous on the internet and the daily expression which used to describe people who born in the late of 1980s and graduated recently.
What is the common ground between ant and the college students born in the late of 1980s? We will have a look at it.
Zhang Wei, a 25 years old Northman of China, he said he had lived in the 15 square meters room which cost ¥400 every month, a quarter of his salary in the past two years since he graduated from university.
With no house and car, he had to go to work and went back home by bus, he even could not afford the any luxury goods.
But he worked hard and tried his best to search a better life for himself.
Many people are experience the life like Zhang Wei, they rent a house and live not far away.
They were all born in the 1980s and now live in the underdeveloped suburbs of major cities.
The majority comes from other areas, particularly the countryside, and they are mostly young graduates who started their college life in 1999, when Chinese universities increased their enrollment dramatically.
They don't have a stable job and their average salary is below ¥2,000.
They are the "ants.
" They share every similarity with "ants": for example, living in "colonies" in cramped area, intelligent, hardworking, yet anonymous and underpaid.
Together the highly educated groups come to be called the "ant tribe", a term coined by Chinese sociologists to describe the struggles of young migrants, who, armed with their diplomas, scramble to big cities in hope of a better life only to find a low-paying jobs and poor living conditions.