Guo sits at the balcony of his home in Dali in southwestern China's Yunnan province having chosen to reject grueling careers for a "low-desire life." Photos: AP
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 professionals who are rattling the ruling Communist Party by rejecting grueling careers for a "low-desire life." That is clashing with the party's message of success and consumerism as its celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding.
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