Millions of Gen Z Chinese have cosmetic surgery such as double eyelid operations to boost their career chances
- High school graduates in China increasingly choose to go under the knife before starting college, believing it will improve their chances at work and in love
- Nearly two-thirds of the 20 million people in China who had cosmetic surgery in 2018 were born after 1990, and one in five were post-millennials
A report released by So-Young, a Nasdaq-listed Chinese online plastic surgery marketplace, shows the number of people undergoing cosmetic surgery in China reached 20 million by the end of 2018. Among the people who booked treatments on So-Young, 64 per cent were born after 1990 and 19 per cent are post-millennials (generally defined as those born after the mid-1990s).
China’s shopping malls are full of advertisements for cosmetic surgery. Photo: Alamy
In a bustling shopping centre in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, many plastic surgery companies have set up counters to promote procedures ranging from facelifts to Botox injections. A consultant surnamed Ding says she received many inquiries from high school graduates in the past month.
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