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In some other countries, most young people are died caused by accidents such as road traffic, but in China, especially female in rural areas chose to suicide to end their lives. An astonishing figure illustrates that China has one of the highest rates of female suicide in the world. Some of them do not tolerate arguments of marriage, and others may be disappointed by the enormous financial pressure. Living in the extreme poverty leads young rural females feel no meaning to live in the world. Although China has been a rapid development, the increasing gap between the rich and poor has already caused a series of social issues.

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By Daniel Griffiths
BBC News, Beijing

China has one of the highest rates of female suicide in the world. And the problem is most acute in poor rural areas.

Women in the countryside are most vulnerable to suicide

In his small home, deep in the poor mountainous north of China, Sun Jiangbao slowly lifts himself from his bed into his wheelchair. A recent mining accident left him paralysed from the waist down.
That alone would be hard enough to live with. But just a few years before the accident his wife killed herself by drinking poison after they got into an argument.

Now every day is a struggle to survive. The only person left to care for him is his 60-year-old mother.

"I never believed my wife would kill herself," Mr Sun said. "I'm paralysed and I can't do anything, not even look after my own 12-year-old son."

Mr Sun and his wife had no money, so he went to the city to find work. That pushed their relationship to breaking point.

His story is a common one in rural China.

Three times more women kill themselves in the countryside than in the cities.

More women kill themselves than men in a country where the number of suicides every year is 50% higher than the global average.

There is no mains water supply in this part of China, so Li Suxiang still collects water the old fashioned way - using a pump.

Despite economic reforms, poverty is still widespread in the countryside and the relentless economic hardship pushed Mrs Li to try to commit suicide.

Many women drink pesticides that are easily available in rural China. They kill quickly.

Mrs Li threw herself into a river and was saved by passers by.

"I saw no point in living," she said. "We were the poorest people in a very poor village. My children keep me going now, but then I just wanted to die."

Since then, things have got better for Mrs Li. But not much. She buys and sells old clothes to help make ends meet.

As we chat, she scrubs down the one bed where she and her family of four still sleep together. There is no room for anything more. Poverty is still part of her life.

Many women feel the same in the small isolated communities of rural China. So now one organisation is trying to change that.

The Cultural Development Centre for Rural Women tries to try help poor women living in rural areas - offering education and counselling.

Project officer, Xu Rong, said another major factor behind female suicide is that old traditions in the countryside, which give women a low social status, still have not disappeared.

"In the countryside women still move in with their husband's families when they get married in accordance with old customs - so they have no close relatives or friends to turn to when times get tough," she explained.

"If they are having difficulties in their marriage they can't divorce, because everything is in the husband's name so they would be left with nothing. Often women can feel trapped, and suicide seems like the only way out."

China simply does not have the resources to deal with this problem. The country only has 17,000 psychiatrists for a population of 1.3 billion people.

Poverty, tradition and underfunding. Put all that together and you have a crisis - but one that goes largely undetected.

All the time, in the many remote corners of this vast country, the same quiet tragedy is being played out again and again, lost in the thunder of China's headlong rush into the future.

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By Daniel Griffiths BBC News, Beijing China has one of the highest rates of female suicide in the world. And the problem is most acute in poor rural areas. Women in the countryside are most vulnerable to suicide In his small home, deep in the poor mountainous north of China, Sun Jiangbao slowly lifts himself from his bed into his wheelchair.

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From the Cultural Revolution to the present, each decade of Chinese youth has its own characteristics, and represents social trend at that time (p. 264). As the 1990s, China’s youth generation has a large population, over 300 million people generally aged from 14 to 25 years old. Compared to their parent generation, who were taught to sacrifice themselves to the nation and common people, today’s young people are more independent and open-minded. They are living in the period of tremendous change, which affected by the globalization, bringing international youth culture to them. What they concerned are more about personal development, like acquiring educational qualifications, competing in the job market and experiencing social change.

In the essay, the author depicts the change of China’s youth generations from Tiananmen Square, claiming that Chinese students gradually decrease their expectations to the local universities and reluctantly study further. He attributes the declining enthusiasm to the particular students cheating on the national exams as the main reason, which I personally suppose that it is negative. The declining rate of students entering in country’s universities is because Chinese students have more choices to their future. The improvement of people’s living standard provides the possibility to students to finish their education abroad, and most parents encourage young people to study in overseas institutions if family’s financial condition is available. Apart from that, the input and influence of western culture as well as the pressure form economic market indeed create a social phenomenon that loads of young people prefer to drop out of school to start their own business, in order to obtain more money. Some of them especially in rural areas do not complete their education because of disadvantaged backgrounds, and others may be prompted by the lure of gold (p. 265).

Chinese parents, officials and governments have concentrated more on youth generation. They believe that the youth issue has become an important problem needed our attention. Also, the constantly independence and openness to the western world will increase economic, social and cultural aspirations to the young people, which could be a potential challenge for Chinese society.

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Recently released figures demonstrate that the youth unemployment remains a serious social problem in Scotland and the government adopts a series of approaches to relieve the pressure, such as providing apprenticeships for young people to learn specific skills. The government sets up departments to guide the youth to analyze their expectations and tries to inform them to be realistic, evaluating themselves properly. Professors points out that the job creation did not meet the needs of the increasing world population, which means creating suitable jobs matching for the youth is important.

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Youth unemployment in Scotland is so high there are fears of a 'lost generation'.

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A 24-year-old Danish female left her school with few qualifications. Instead of entering universities like her friends, she is confident about her future and feels no fear about her career, thus she decides to work to gain more experience. Influenced by the economic crisis, Britain, France, Spain and Greece regularly refer to their 15-25 year-olds as the Lost Generation, who face the bleak future. The young people confront poor job prospects and severe debts, complaining that they find it difficult to live their own life in the society. Different from other Europe counterparts, the government in Denmark upholds positive attitude towards young people’s future. They establish apprenticeships to decrease unemployed rate and offer free higher education to the public. Apart from that, Danish people enjoy the sense of social responsibility, which means they may not be socially engaged and political active, but they feel powerful as a part in society. They feel anything but lost.

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Britain, France, Spain and Greece regularly refer to their 15-25 year-olds as the Lost Generation, but in Denmark young people seem to have a much more positive view of their future.

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How to narrow the gap between Generation Y and the Baby Boomer generation?

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How to narrow the gap between Generation Y and the Baby Boomer generation?

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Communication is fundamental to human existence (p. 497).  Human beings need to contact with each other to keep close with the world. Past decades have witnessed the rapid development of technology and science, and as the generation who was born during this period, Generation Y has been tremendously influenced by this very lifestyle. They have grown up experiencing digital technology and have known it all their lives (p. 500). Members of Generation Y are considered as the web generation (Hartmann, 2003) or the Google generation (Helsper & Enyon, 2009, p. 1). They normally are raised up by overprotective parents who constantly assure that they are special and unique, which enables the young people to challenge the authority when they do not get the recognition they deserve. Generation Y prefers to conduct communications through cell phones, computers and social media all of their lives.

Baby boomers mostly communicate by face-to-face communication, telephone conversations and e-mail (p. 500). They are competitive and respect authority, but sometimes they obtain pressure because of the inadequate knowledge of technology. Different methods to communicate may rise isolation for both two generations. How to bridge the gap becomes to an attention. The solution to effective communication is that both generations form an open mind to learn from each other, enhancing meaningful relations between generations.