[bobthepanda]

There is that and there is the fact that 50-60 years ago China was coming out of a Cultural Revolution that had shut down the education system, and places like Shenzhen were fishing villages with dirt roads well within living memory.

It is not exactly surprising that in such a breakneck development pace that some people did not get up to speed at the same pace.

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I will also say I think that China’s embrace of super apps and the quasi-app-internet is not helping with online literacy.