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The word “involution”, or neijuan – referring to excessive competition in social and economic life – has become a common slang term in China. Students, workers and even business leaders have been ...

Continued involution would undermine China's ambition to move up the value chain via 'new productive forces' In economic policy documents, Beijing's leadership used the term "involution", neijuan in ...

China is gripped by an insidious problem that is eroding its economy: It is trapped in a cycle of competition so fierce that it is destroying profits, driving a brutal rat race among workers and ...